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...Education matters whether it's in a formal setting or not. The fact that the Afro-American is not in touch with pertinent cultural advances in Afro-American and American thought doesn't bode well. But if you look at the condition of the Afro-American community you can see it. There are a lot of things that are wrong that we need to correct, and that would be one of those things. As far as the white kids that are studying, that's always been the case. This has been 40 years now, it didn't just come...
Gates developed the idea for the program while working on his Encyclopedia Africana with Professor of Afro-American Studies and Philosophy K. Anthony Appiah...
...program makes the grade in end-of-the-year evaluations set up by the Markle Foundation, which sponsors the program along with the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Studies, it will expand nationwide...
...sense is, in retrospect, that one cannot do all things at all times. Things need to move sequentially," Rivers says. "Skip's role at Harvard in leading the [W.E.B. Du Bois] Instutite and the [Afro-American Studies] Department, and now this, is what I'd call a reasonable progression...
Rivers says he hopes that the Du Bois Institute and the Department of Afro-American Studies will play a greater role in the community in years to come...