Word: afros
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Quincy Jones Visiting Associate Professor of African-American Music Ronald M. Radano will take a look this semester in Afro-American Studies 154z: "Black Music and American Racial Encounter...
...residents are now enjoying the dozens of seminar rooms, departmental lounges and scores of new offices, all with touches of the turn-of-the-century construction, be it a hefty wooden truss in the Germanic Language and Literature Department reception area or an original table in the Afro-American Studies library...
Randall says that thus far, the comment cards have been largely positive, although Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr., chair of the Afro-American Studies Department, has requested that the cafe serve ribs.JOHN F. COYLE and MELISSA K. CROCKERSeminar rooms scattered throughout the building provide ideal space for small classes in each department...
DIED. FELA ANIKUPALO-KUTI, 58, confrontational father of Afro-Beat; after suffering from AIDS; in Lagos. Flamboyant and unapologetic--he married 27 women in one mass ceremony--Fela liked to strut about the stage clad only in briefs. He wielded his saxophone like a weapon, directing it against the Nigerian government in songs like V.I.P. (Vagabonds in Power). His commitment involved more than just attitude: he was frequently arrested and in 1984 was imprisoned...
While an odd concentration has bit the dust--Geology and Geography was absorbed decades ago--many more have sprung up to fill the gaps--Environmental Science and Public Policy (ESPP), Afro-American Studies, Computer Science and Women's Studies are all relatively new offerings...