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Morgan said that after his meeting with Jeffries, he was asked to wait in the outer office at the CUNY Afro-American Studies Department while staff retrieved a press packet...
Earlier in that interview, Morgan has claimed, Jeffries called Henry Louis Gates, the chair of Harvard's Afro-American Studies Department, a "punk" and a "faggot." Jeffries confiscated the tapes containing those statements and threatened to kill Morgan if he used the quotes in his story, Morgan said...
HOMECOMING: WILLIAM H. JOHNSON AND AFRO-AMERICA, 1938-1946. National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington. These 80 paintings showcase one of America's most important but neglected painters. His works portray black experience, from the cotton patches to dance halls to city streets, in a primitive, folk-inspired style. Through March 1. A splendidly illustrated companion book, Homecoming: The Art and Life of William H. Johnson (Rizzoli; $45), provides a comprehensive look at his life and work...
Other panelists included Professor of Afro-American Studies K. Anthony Appiah, Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus John Kenneth Galbraith and Gurney Professor of History and Political Structure Adam B. Ulam. The debate was moderated by Afro-American Studies Chair Henry Louis Gates...
Drivers on the Tri-State Tollway just southwest of Chicago were startled last week by a billboard plugging the Afro Country Club, "where only the ball is white." They were even more startled the next day, after overnight vandals wrote NIGER (sic) and K.K.K. and daubed a swastika on the sign. Similar racist graffiti were sprayed on road signs in the town of Justice, the racially mixed bedroom community of 11,500 where the billboard was located...