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...celebration will ultimately involve about 400 student performers, and will feature such luminaries as Professor of Afro-American Studies Cornel West '74, record producer and musician Delfeayo Marsalis, and poet-activist Sonia Sanchez...
...under way in Castro's Cuba. Catholic Church attendance, baptisms, confirmations, religious weddings and funerals are all on the rise. In this traditionally Catholic nation, almost equal numbers attend Catholic Mass or evangelical services, and the religion with the most adherents of all--perhaps half the population--is the Afro-Cuban rite of Santeria. Its babalaos (spiritual guides) far exceed the Catholic priests in influence, but its home-based, loose network of competing sects poses no political threat. Economic hardship is a powerful motivator: many of those new congregants of all faiths are searching for material sustenance in the food...
More than a decade later, The Crimson againfound itself embroiled in a controversy centeringon race. Crimson reporter J. Elliot Morgan's lifewas allegedly threatened during an interview withLeonard Jeffries, an Afro-centrist professor atthe City University of New York...
Harvard needs junior faculty in Afro-American Studies. It has none. Harvard must make a serious effort to increase the pool of scholars in the field and others like it. It hasn...
After obtaining his Ph.D., Radano worked at the Smithsonian Institution for three years, then went on to teach at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he is now a tenured associate professor in the Afro-American Studies and in the School of Music...