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Today, black women returning to the Yard after the winter break only see one black female face among the ranks of the tenured Faculty: Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, professor of Afro-American studies...
McKay, who is also the former chair of the Afro-American Studies Department at Wisconsin, says she was offered the position of Chair of the Afro-American Studies Department in the 1988-89 school year...
...ultimately declined Harvard's offer because she felt that her leadership of the department would have continued in the same vein as her potential predecessors, and what Afro-American studies really needed was a new direction...
...soul songcraft draws from soul, jazz, blues and hip-hop--but instead of a chaotic swirl of sound, the result is a slow-burning, meditative album that brings all these genres together. This is healing music about magic and love, racism and reincarnation, late-night parties and Afro picks. Badu's voice is a natural wonder, sharp and metallic, wounded and sad, yearning for empathy in one song, decrying injustice in the next. Her brilliant companion CD, Live, which captures concert performances of the songs on Baduizm, shows she's more than another '90s studio creation. She's the most...
Also on the committee are Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies Diana L. Eck '76, Warren Professor of the History of Religion William R. Hutchison, Professor of Afro-American Studies and of the Philosophy of Religion Cornel R. West '74 and Houghton Professor of Theology and Contemporary Change Preston N. Williams...