Word: afro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reeves spoke of his involvement with Afro, the Black student movement that first demanded Harvard's divestment of stock in companies doing business in South Africa, and took over University Hall for a week...
...alumnus who had been president of Afro in the late sixties, Skip Griffin '70, in an interview prior to the forum said he is disappointed with the progress the University has made with the the Department of Afro-American Studies, established in the wake of protest that his group...
Professor Kilson also attacks the Black Alumni Weekend, scheduled for March 1-3 and sponsored by the Black Students Association, the Association of -Black Radcliffe Women and the Afro-American cultural Center. Professor Kilson received an invitation to attend the activities of the Weekend, and to learn more about its purpose. He made no attempts to either speak with the student organizers or respond to the invitation. The Weekend was not funded by Black graduates, as Kilson wrongly states, but by the Undergraduate council, the Harvard Foundation for Race Relation, and numerous fundraising events (partics) among the students...
...economic and social inequalities stiff extant for Black people Further, these activities, rater than being parochial instill in us a sense of Black pride and create in all people a healthy respect for differences and individuality. Anthony A. Ball '86 Vice-President Black Students Association Kenneth Johnson '87 BSA Afro-American Cultural Center Liasion Darryl Parsons '87 BSA General Organizational Liasion Brian Stevens '88 BSA Third World Student Alliance Representative Timothy A. Wilkins '86 President Black Students Association
...HARD to believe that the next piece could surpass the previous ones, but Ailey's works always exceed expectations. The last dance was "Revelation." his most popular work. The suite "explores motivations and emotions of Afro-American religions music" including gospel songs, spirituals, song-sermons and blues...