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...AFRO-AMERICAN Studies is Harvard's worst department, and there isn't a damned thing it can do to save itself...
Growing up in Panama City, Blades listened to a polyglot hit parade that included singer Frankie Lymon, as well as Elvis Presley, the Platters and the Beatles. Following in the footsteps of his conga-playing father, Blades started singing with local Afro-Cuban bands. He enrolled in law school at the University of Panama, "to please my parents," and passed the bar. But a short visit to New York City left the young attorney torn between the courtroom and the recording studio. The final verdict favored music, and by 1974 Blades was back in Manhattan for good. "This...
...leading salsa label. In 1978 he and trombonist Willie Colon recorded the album Siembra (Seed), which went on to become one of the best- selling salsa albums of all time. Meanwhile Blades had begun to tinker with the salsa formula, replacing the horns with synthesizers and augmenting the basic Afro-Cuban beat with strains of jazz, '50s doo-wop and rock...
...case, a group of five Black police officers, in conjunction with the Cambridge Afro-American Police Association, charges that the department has a double standard for discipline and promotion of officers...
...cities like Chicago, but with mixed success. Black Panther leaders like Huey Newton and Bobby Seale sound as threatening as the white racists they oppose. Riots break out in Watts, Detroit, and Attica prison. Meanwhile, the nation undergoes a virtual revolution of race consciousness. Negroes are transformed into blacks, Afro hairstyles become a political statement, and the rise of a sassy young heavyweight named Cassius Clay has reverberations far beyond the boxing ring...