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...always acutely aware of his own worth," says Gates, who is the chair of Harvard's Department of Afro-American Studies. "He is the only person of this generation, no, he is the only person period, who has been able to be a great musician and a great businessman...
...PALC and Afro protesters marched out of the hall, their fists thrust upward in a proud, but less-than-victorious, end to the building occupation. They and the cheering supporters paraded through Holyoke Center and down Mt. Auburn Street...
Thus being black and a young man at Harvard in 1972 was rendered extremely complex. Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) stopped by to recruit a few good revolutionary Black Power warriors. Black Students Association (BSA) meetings were long and often heated. Big "Afro" hair was important and white involvements were often privately and publicly scrutinized. In black communities across the country, Harvard was rumored to have "ruined" many black men. It was said that these promising students had been con- fused about their racial and class identity and were therefore rendered useless to the struggle for black liberation...
...black students organized a Journal of Afro-American and African Studies, founded the Kuumba Singers, lobbied for and opened an Afro-American Cultural Center on Sacramento Street and vigorously lobbied for a serious Afro-American studies department and for more black and female professors...
...also had the great pleasure of having dinner almost nightly for a semester with Professor Ewart Guinier. He was the first chair of Afro-American studies at Harvard. He was an imposing figure, as handsome as he was intelligent. A lawyer and a political activist, he told me stories of the Harlem Renaissance, post-Depression governmental policies and why Harvard could not be trusted. Before the end of his term as chair, he would distribute a booklet he edited entitled "Unfair Harvard," wherein he chronicled the sorry saga of minimal commitment to African-American studies. Harvard's administration should award...