Word: afro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reminiscent of the '60s, but this time the sit-in was peaceful and the administration sympathetic. Upset by recent racial incidents, including an alleged attack by five white students on two blacks, nearly 200 minority students at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst took over the school's Afro-American Center for 5 1/2 days and demanded greater efforts to fight campus racism. Last week, after 14 hours of negotiations with University Chancellor Joseph Duffey, the protest ended when Duffey agreed to many demands, including a new disciplinary procedure that would make involvement in & a racial episode cause for immediate...
Three Harvard University Law School professors and a member of Harvard University's W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research appeared last night on Channel 2, WGBH in an episode of the Boston television series "Say Brother," entitled "Are We the People...
...host is a actor, singer and composer who specializes in salsa, an Afro-Caribbean folk style of performance. Blades received a Master's degree from Harvard Law School in 1985, and the same year won a Grammy award for Best Album. He has also starred in several American films, including Crossover Dreams, Fatal Beauty, and most recently. The Milagro Beanfield War, which is scheduled for release this year...
...Harvard does not have a very strong commitment to African studies," says Nathan I. Huggins, W.E.B. DuBois Professor of History and of Afro-American Studies. Harvard has only one professor teaching African history, Huggins says, adding that other area schools such as Boston University have devoted more effort to the study of Africa...
...turn of the century. The play's divisions between city and forest, between earthbound mortals and ethereal spirits thus become racial differences as well. White colonial masters stumble through the enchanted wood uncomprehendingly, while brown and black aborigines, attuned to the realm of magic, dance to throbbing Afro-Brazilian music and cast voodoo spells...