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...fact is that so-called Afro-pessimism isn't grounded in solid research," Appiah said...
Professor of Afro-American Studies and of Philosophy K. Anthony Appiah, noted the uplift and challenge combined in the president's words...
Flanked by some of the most renowned scholars of Africa and Afro-American studies, standing at a podium adorned with white and crimson roses, Mandela praised Harvard's commitment to studying the African continent...
...spring 1972, three years after a student takeover of University Hall jolted Harvard into the age of campus unrest, a group of black students from Harvard-Radcliffe Afro and the Pan-African Liberation Committee took over Mass. Hall, headquarters of the central administration. Demanding that the University sell its investments with Gulf Oil Corp., which allegedly aided the Portuguese government fighting rebels in Angola, the students stayed in the building for six days before finally leaving...
...minute to call their float, a decorated pickup truck, "Black to the Future, Broad Channel, 2098." It was intended, they said, to make the point that nearly all-white Broad Channel will, in the next hundred years, become integrated. To make that "point," such as it is, they wore Afro wigs and blackface, dribbled basketballs and threw pieces of watermelon at the crowd...