Word: afros
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deeply appreciative of the article about the Department of Afro-American Studies and the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute that appeared in The Crimson ("One Man's Dream," September 18, 1996). It is always gratifying to recieve news coverage that is so well researched and well written. I would like to correct one impression, however, that your readers might have gotten about claims for the success we've enjoyed these last five years...
Projects in the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research initiated during Gates' tenure include the Black Periodical Literature Project, a compilation of works in black newspapers and journals; the African Art Database, which contains 20,000 slides; and the Encyclopedia Africana...
...when the new Barker humanities center is completed, the Department of Afro-American Studies will move from its current location near CVS to plush new offices in the old Harvard Union...
...Though Afro-Am has yet to practice politics like the Kennedy School, the department's heavy hitters are well heard on a national level...
...Wilson's] ideas are to make headway ... this depends on building organized progressive networks of ideas and people for a revitalized Democratic Party...," Skocpol wrote. "The Harvard Afro-Am department can be a part of that, but only a part. And this cannot be done by focusing on individuals as personal super-stars...