Word: afros
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...DuBois was the man," said Gates, who is also director of the DuBois Institute for Afro-American Studies. "He was the smartest black intellectual in American history...
...that kind of four-on-the-floor joyride, seemingly heedless of Hollywood story conventions as it spins from one attractive group of actors to the next. When Polley disappears after 40 minutes, you may feel no one can take her place; then Diggs (our choice for Afro-fab star of the future) assumes center screen and is just as beguiling. Wolf is delightfully disdainful of getting an ear kiss from the narc's free-love wife: "And that ear thing. I have Q-Tips, thank you." Olyphant is also an accomplished hunk. In fact, why not round up the entire...
...doctoral program in the Department of Afro-American Studies was also discussed at yesterday's meeting...
Wolff said that in comprison to Yale and Berkeley's doctoral programss, which are largely humanities-based, a Harvard program could build on the department's existing strength : its links to the social science . Many Afro-American studies professors hold joint appionments with other Harvard departments and Faculities...
Though it was not one of the six demands they originally presented to the administration, the students who took over University Hall were also fighting for a department of Afro-American Studies, a demand the University agreed to later that year. Today, the department is one of the best in the country. The fight begun in 1969 isn't quite over yet, though: students have been asking for an ethnic studies program for years, to no avail...