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...dangerous can an Afro comb and a plastic bottle of hot sauce be? When Officer Louis Pepe came by cell No. 6 at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan on Nov. 1, 2000, he was distracted by a squirt in the face from the bottle before the sharpened comb was plunged like a bayonet through his eye and 2 1/2 in. into his brain. The man in the cell, Mamdouh Mahmud Salim, then allegedly took the keys from the paralyzed Pepe and began to wander down the hall. Guards stopped Salim, and he didn't get away...
...nearly two decades. He has been a passionate advocate for affordable housing, public education and racial and economic justice in an increasingly fractious and gentrified Cambridge. As a Harvard alumnus and honors graduate in History and Literature, Ken Reeves has also been an unstinting supporter of PBHA, Kuumba, the Afro-American Studies Department, and other revered institutions on this campus...
Hoping to correct at least a portion of the record, Werner and I pushed toward our fall 1986 deadline. The Afro-American studies offices became frenetic as the pamphlet grew into a paperback. From the students who made an index by using three-by-five cards to the faculty members who contributed essays, the book inspired the most wonderful sort of communal effort. Professor Caldwell Titcomb ’47, the musicologist and theater critic, soon joined us as a co-editor. Next, we sought the expert guidance of the late DuBois Professor of History and of Afro-American Studies...
Eight years later, a new edition of the anthology is sorely needed. While the present edition continues to attract readers, much has transpired in Harvard’s Afro-American Studies program since Gates took the helm. A retrospective by him would round out the collection nicely. Entries by or about Fletcher University Professor and Professor of Afro-American Studies Cornel R. West ’74 and other distinguished faculty who left prominent academic posts to join Harvard’s program are needed. Given the book’s move to NYU, it would also be fascinating...
Despite the multiplicity of perspectives an anthology allows, it may not be the ideal medium for a new account of African-American history at Harvard. A better scenario might be for a professor with cross-disciplinary training in English, Afro-American studies and history to write a full-length study of the varieties of African-American experience at Harvard and Radcliffe. A scholar with W.E.B. Du Bois’s interdisciplinary interests could produce a narrative of enormous academic value and of national interest. Any takers...