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...Department of Afro-American Studies was born in 1969 amid the bitterest racial conflict in Harvard's history...
This year, as Afro-American studies celebrates its 30th anniversary at Harvard, the picture of race-based activism is far more complex and multi-hued...
...issues that students confronted this year--police brutality, ethnic studies, American military involvement in Puerto Rico--are a generation removed from those that motivated protesters in 1970. After all, Afro-American studies has evolved from a marginal concession to the "jewel in Harvard's crown...
Professor of Afro-American Studies K. Anthony Appiah, who also received an honorary degree, turned the ceremony to a personal note. He talked about his family's own experiences and travels in a multicultural world, and then offered advice to students entering the paradoxical "global village...
Yesterday's senior events also included the Phi Beta Kappa Society's induction of new members and an oration by Professor of Afro-American Studies and of Philosophy K. Anthony Appiah, as well as a cappella "Grad...