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Still, Santana and Davis agreed that there was very little Santana needed to change. His lightning finger work and exquisitely formed fusion of blues, Hendrix-style guitar fireworks and Afro-Latin rhythms remain fresh. The key was coaxing a new generation of record buyers to discover a musician whose early hits are probably collecting dust in their parents' vinyl collections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Fire This Time | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

...Montel in an unintentional nod to the common relegation of minorities performers to minstrelsy. Hood mistakenly asserts that "African-American drama did not come about until Langston Hughes in the 1920s." "African-American drama started a long time before that,"says Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., chair of the Afro-American Studies Department. Indeed, the first published play by a black writer dates...

Author: By Frankie J. Petrosino, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ARTS EXPOSE: Something Rotten in the State of Harvard Theater | 10/22/1999 | See Source »

...groundbreaking look at the history of the "Dark Continent," hosted by Afro-American Studies Department Chair Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr., will premier in the United States Monday on the Public Broadcasting System (PBS), officials announced this week...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Gates to Host Innovative New PBS Series on African History | 10/22/1999 | See Source »

...entrance, massive commercial displays push Halloween masks, Southern Belle wigs, feather boas and fishnet body-stockings at prices comparable to Urban Outfitters': $14 for a "'70s Afro Wig," $10 for glittery sunglasses...

Author: By Carol J. Garvan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Garment District: Heaven in a Pile of Clothes at Cambridge's Vintage Mart | 10/20/1999 | See Source »

Over the last couple of years, the English and Afro-American Studies departments and others have had more room to spread out in their multi-disciplinary Barker Center for the Humanities. As of this fall, the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS) has a space of its own in the new Maxwell-Dworkin building...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller and James Y. Stern, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Flush With Campaign Funds, University Looking to Spend | 10/8/1999 | See Source »

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