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ANTIBALAS AFROBEAT ORCHESTRA. This 14-musician musical group performs ethnic fare rife with boisterous horns and polyrhythmic beats. The ethnically diverse group includes Latinos, whites, Afro-Americans, Africans and Asian-Americans; they perform songs in Spanish, Yoruba and English. Saturday, Feb. 14 at 10:30 p.m. Tickets $12/15 day of show, 21+. The Original House of Blues, 96 Winthrop...
DuBois Professor of the Humanities and chair of the Afro-American studies department Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr. kicked off the festivities Saturday by praising the guide’s editors for continuing the dialogue about the black experience at Harvard...
...event—which also commemorated the 30th anniversary of the Afro-American studies department and the beginning of Black History Month—featured a slide show of black history at Harvard and speeches by two of the guide’s editors, Marques J. Redd ’04 and Toussaint G. Losier...
...Harvard, there were very few Asian American, Latino or Native American students before there were black students. Among others, the Black Students Association led the fight for the inclusion of these groups in our academic community. Black students pushed for the creation of Harvard’s Afro-American Studies department, a model for cross-discipline study of ethnicity, and opened the door for other forms of ethnic study...
...essays include profiles of famous black Harvard scholars such as W.E.B. DuBois and DuBois Professor of the Humanities and chair of the Afro-American Studies department Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr., as well as a photo history of black life at Harvard...