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...CHUCHO VALDES Bele Bele en La Habana (Blue Note) A native of Cuba, this fleet-fingered performer is one of the world's finest pianists. Mixing jazz with traditional Afro-Cuban musical forms such as son, danzon and mambo, he creates ferociously cerebral songs that break boundaries, cross oceans and are too spirited for any embargo to contain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Best Of 1998 Music | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

Despite concerted attention to issues of race at Harvard and a world-renowned Afro-American Studies Department, black students still face a Faculty that is overwhelmingly white and an administration unreceptive to calls for greater Faculty diversity. Randomization has atomized and dispersed black students, undermining traditionally supportive communities; the College has addressed the problem of self-segregation without dealing adequately with the negative impact on black students' experiences at Harvard. The College must now concern itself, especially if randomization is to stay, with fostering new sources of communities-perhaps a viable new student center...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Too Happy With No. 28 | 12/16/1998 | See Source »

Higginbotham taught courses at both the Kennedy School of Government and in the Afro-American Studies department, where he taught Af-Am 195, "Race and the American Legal Process," this semester...

Author: By Kevin E. Meyers, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Higginbotham, Revered Justice, Dies of Stroke | 12/15/1998 | See Source »

...news of his illness spread across campusyesterday, many members of the Harvard communitystopped to say a prayer for their friend.Professor of Afro-American Studies Cornel R. West'74 asked his class to observe a moment of silencefor Higginbotham at the beginning of Af-Am 10,"Introduction to Afro-American Studies." Duringthe day, members of the Black StudentsAssociation, Kuumba and the W.E.B. DuBois Societyalso received an e-mail message on Higginbotham'scondition that urged them to pray for hisrecovery...

Author: By Kevin E. Meyers, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Higginbotham, Revered Justice, Dies of Stroke | 12/15/1998 | See Source »

Higginbotham's wife, professor of Afro-AmericanStudies and of History Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham,took this semester off to recover from recentsurgery...

Author: By Kevin E. Meyers, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Higginbotham, Revered Justice, Dies of Stroke | 12/15/1998 | See Source »

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