Word: afros
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...Harvard on changing the University. Thomas S. Williamson Jr. '68, solicitor for the U.S. Department of Labor, was in the student government and served as the first chair of an ad hoc committee of Black students formed in response to the King assassination which took steps to establish Afro-American studies...
...moving forward," he adds. "The Afro-American Studies Department provides a challenging model for us to move forward, through encouraging and supporting gay and lesbian research and scholarship...
With his full-blown Afro, close-fitting three-piece suits and fondness for rap music, Cornel West comes across as too hip to be a philosopher. That helps explain why people are always confusing him with someone considerably less highbrow, especially when he's not on campus...
Professor of Afro-American Studies K. Anthony Appiah said the possible financial constraints facing ROTC students are not discriminatory in the way bias against gays and lesbians in the military...
...herself. In 1957 she fell in love with Max Roach, the great bebop percussionist, whom she married five years later. The civil rights movement was gathering momentum, and Lincoln got swept along in it. She was one of the first black women to wear her hair in a natural, Afro style, and her music underwent a similar transformation. In 1960 she sang on Roach's Freedom Now Suite, an urgent blast against America's homegrown version of apartheid. She also starred in Nothing But a Man, a poignant 1962 film about the civil rights movement that has just been rereleased...