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...spokesperson for Flynn's office said that the mayor was unavailable for comment yesterday. DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr., who as chair of the Department of Afro-American Studies co-sponsored the speech with Ogletree, was out of town and could not be reached for comment last night
...event, sponsored by the Office of the President, the Office of the Dean of Students and the Department of Afro-American Studies, was largely hailed as an effort by the administration to ease the heated tensions that flared last spring. The showing of the film, a documentary about Black troops' role in the liberation of Nazi concentration camps, was followed by the panel discussion and address by Rev. Jesse I.. Jackson...
...veracity of the movie has come under fire in recent weeks, the organizers insist the film will be an opportunity to improve relations between Blacks and Jews on campus. The event is sponsored by the Office of the President, the Office of the Dean of Students and the Afro-American Studies Department...
...sponsors of tonight's event--President Rudenstine, Dean Epps, and the Afro-Am Department--are billing the event as "A Special Moment" in Black-Jewish relations on campus. Jesse Jackson will introduce the film. Following the screening will be a panel discussion that includes Law School assistant professor Charles J. Ogletree, professor Henry Louis Gates, Rabbi Sally Finestone, student representatives of Hillel and the Black Students' Association, a Black veteran and a Holocaust survivor...
...degenerated from advice to nuisance ("I'm the one who was nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson and confirmed by the Senate of the United States . . . not you); his insistence upon using the word Negro to identify an African American (though recently he had begun to use the term Afro-American); his deep and passionate sympathy for all downtrodden people; the uniqueness of his questioning of attorneys at oral argument (in a case involving the constitutionality of a regulation prohibiting people from sleeping in public parks, the Justice asked the Deputy Solicitor General whether he had ever been homeless...