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...just bumping into people and also having somewhere to eat," says K. Anthony Appiah, professor of Afro-American Studies and philosophy...
...Appiah says the motivation for research centers comes from within the teaching staff, not the administration...
...Encarta Africana's 3,361 articles, you'll stumble across a series of video lectures that highlight the work's major themes. Music producer Quincy Jones and comedian Whoopi Goldberg discuss race and music; the volume's co-editors, Harvard professors Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Kwame Anthony Appiah, explain the struggle begun in 1909 by black scholar W.E.B. Du Bois to publish an encyclopedia that would chronicle black history...
...video clips include segments of Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West '74 talking about freedom, actor Whoopi Goldberg on race, Jones discussing music, poet Maya Angelou speaking about the black diaspora and U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan discussing Africa. Appiah and Gates also have a clip on the encyclopedia's origins...
Originally, Appiah said, DuBois wrote to 100 people, asking them to be on the encyclopedia's editorial board. Everyone accepted, except, ironically, then-Harvard president Charles W. Eliot, class of 1853, who said he was too busy...