Word: afro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Josephine P. Wright, a former assistant professor of Afro-American Studies who filed a discrimination complaint against Harvard last spring, recently dropped the complaint after accepting a research appointment at the W.E.B. Dubois Institute for Afro-American Research...
...When the Afro-Am executive committee turned down her request--a move she said would "imperil" her $77,000 National Endowment for the Humanities grant--Wright filed a complaint with the federal Equal Opportunity Employment Commission (EOEC) and threatened to sue the University, charging that it had discriminated against her on the basis of race...
...became a part of FAS [the Faculty of Arts and Sciences] in July, 1980. The Institute can play a larger role in the intellectual life of the community by bringing together both minority and non-minority scholars and students through lectureships, conferences and symposia focused on themes relating to Afro-American history and culture...
Nathan I. Huggins, chairman of the Afro-American Studies Department, also spoke at that meeting. Rather than address Wilson's main point about goals, Huggins suggested a different question: Should Harvard undertake a deliberate policy to attract minorities and women to its faculty? The key word, Huggins stressed, was "deliberate." He said the University should put forth that effort because it was the right thing to do and because it would improve the quality of the University...
...which he drove himself last year is seldom seen these days. Instead, he races around Monrovia in a chauffeured black Mercedes-Benz limousine flanked by motorcycle police with wailing sirens. A hairdresser comes to his suite in the Israeli-built Executive Mansion each morning to fluff up his luxuriant Afro. As one Liberian official puts it: "He is getting comfortable as the head of state...