Word: afros
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lieutenant Flap, a black soldier with an outsize Afro, joins Beetle Bailey. Three Southern newspapers refuse to run any Flap strips...
Since 1991, the Harvard community has marveled at the tremendous growth within the Department of Afro-American Studies. With the appointment of Cornel R. West '74, Harvard's Afro-Am department has established itself as the country's unequivocal center of Afro-Am scholarship...
...only goes to show what a little commitment can do. Three years ago, when West refused a tenured post in Afro-Am, the department had only one tenured professor and a small, embitered group of concentrators who were certain that Harvard was not taking their needs seriously. Since the, Afro-Am has been transformed--not only because of [DuBois Professor of the Humanities and Afro-Am chair Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s] charismatic leadership, but also because [former President Derek C. Bok and former Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky ] were willing to devote the resources to rebuilding Afro...
...Cornel R. West '74, a prominent Afro-American studies professor who directed the Afro-American program at Princeton, accepts a tenured professorship at the Harvard Divinity School and the Afro-American Studies Department. West will begin teaching in the fall...
...proposed Humanities Quad will bring together Harvard's fractured faculty, uniting departments from Afro-American Studies (presently found above the CVS pharmacy on Mass Ave) to English (which is itself divided between two inconvenient buildings clustered around Prescott Street...