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Slater cited the Afro-American Studies department as one of several aspects of the University that is attractive to prospective black students...
African Americans find their roots all over the world. Antonia Cottrell Martin, a co-founder of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society in Washington, is a fourth-generation descendant of pioneers who drove cattle to California during the Gold Rush. She advises using a variety of documents, explaining that "a South Carolina Dutch slave owner's documents can help locate black cousins in the Netherlands. Census records might find a Chinese ancestor in Mississippi or one born in Canada, Madagascar, New Zealand or, of course, the Caribbean." Finding the right name provides many clues. To students in his genealogy...
Louis Armstrong was so much, in fact, that the big bands sounded like him, their featured improvisers took direction from him, and every school of jazz since has had to address how he interpreted the basics of the idiom--swing, blues, ballads and Afro-Hispanic rhythms. While every jazz instrumentalist owes him an enormous debt, singers as different as Bing Crosby, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley and Marvin Gaye have Armstrong in common as well. His freedom, his wit, his discipline, his bawdiness, his majesty and his irrepressible willingness to do battle with deep sorrow...
Radcliffe College doled out its highest undergraduate honor to a Boston area native this year. Rebecca C. Kiley '98, an Afro-American studies concentrator, was named the 1998 recipient of the Captain Jonathan Fay Prize at the Radcliffe College Alumnae Association's Strawberry Tea for graduating senior women...
Kiley has maintained a near perfect academic record during her four years at Harvard and is graduating with highest honors in Afro-American studies. Kiley was also inducted into Harvard's Phi Beta Kappa chapter...