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...front-page article in Tuesday's edition was in error. Charlene Morisseau '95 concentrates in social studies, not Afro-American studies...
...must say that I was flattered to find myself pictured alongside Cornel West, under the headline, "The Two New Faces of Harvard Afro-Am" (March 22, 1994). Of course, the "two new faces" referred to by the headline are actually West and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, both newly appointed faculty of the Afro-American Studies Department. Perhaps The Crimson did not have a picture of Higginbotham available, but the use of my picture does raise some interesting questions regarding the purpose and intent of those who prepared the story...
...head slowly side to side as he listened to his band. Watson was his characteristic self on this tune, looking like a sly serpent when he blew into his golden saxophone and smiled deviously. He slowly gyrated in his Armani suit as he played, moving his enormous aerodyamic Afro, like something from a Schlitz malt liquor ad. When his solo shot up to the high end breathlessly, it was easy to see why he is heralded as on of the best saxophonists of his generation. When the piano's turn came, he built up a solo that climaxed with...
...wanted a historian and Evelyn is the best in her Field," says DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr., chair of the Afro-American Studies Department...
...Higginbotham's research is so relevant," Afro-American Studies concentrator Caryn S. Rivers '94 says. "It's fabulous to have that in the department in light of the religious debates emerging in the Black community...