Word: afro
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...rights". Would the norms of fairness and free speech be violated? You bet they would, and the Harvard Black Students Association and--yes--the Harvard Black Law Students Association would view them as having been violated, and would charge the conservative students associations with provocative and racist insensitivity to Afro-Americans (and rightly...
DIED. Frank ("Machito") Grillo, 76, Cuban-born bandleader whose 1940s Afro-Cuban dance bands wedded advanced jazz harmonies, big-band instrumentation and pulsing Latin rhythms, helping create salsa and change the course of modern jazz; of a stroke; in London. After World War II, such bebop jazz artists as Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker adapted his Afro-Cuban sound to small-group jazz and often performed and recorded with Machito...
Speaking on behalf of the Black Students Association (BSA), I would like to make it clear that our organization is not technically, theoretically, or even philosophically exclusive! The BSA serves to support, strengthen, and display the beauty of Afro-American people and culture. Our concerns are global, stretching from the Harvard student body, across to the Roxbury community, and on out over the seas to Africa. The BSA does not believe that these interests are or should be the sole concern of Black students. Our organization already has two white students in its membership, and we encourage other students...
Minority student leaders also challenged the report of the Afro American Studies Department's success...
...Fitzgerald '84, a coordinator of Black student recruiting in the admissions office, criticized the report's evaluation of the Afro-American studies department, saving that while it offer a number of good courses it does not focus enough on African languages and culture...