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...survey of the history of Harlem, which opened two years later. The very idea offended people who couldn't understand what a historical show was doing at an art museum. That bad reaction got worse when the show's catalog turned out to contain an essay by a young black woman that included anti-Semitic remarks. In the uproar that followed, Hoving nearly lost his job. (See pictures of the Louvre...
...Disney is setting the record, um, straight, with its release of The Princess and the Frog. The protagonist, Tiana, is Disney's first black princess - and she's got curly hair. Although Tiana's skin color is generating far more buzz than her hairstyle, it would be a mistake to overlook the significance of her coif. There are plenty of black women who spend tons of time, energy and money straightening their hair - including the U.S.'s much imitated First Lady. Disney easily could have bestowed smooth tresses on Tiana, yet it didn...
Other holiday-card designers are downright caustic. Order of St. Nick, based in Davenport, Iowa, has a Depressing Times section, which includes a card with a stark black-and-white photo of a man with tattered clothing, a dirt-smudged face and a thought bubble that reads, "The more I drink, the less I care that we lost our home in the subprime mortgage crisis." Another of its Dust Bowl-era holiday cards features a woman wrapping a gift. "I made you a Christmas present!" reads the front cover. On the inside: "But I had to burn...
...Currier House resident rattles off a list of extracurricular activies: First Class Marshall, Political Action Chair for the Black Men’s Forum (BMF), Chair of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, First-Year Urban Program Leader, and Institute of Politics Fellow. He has also stepped with the BMF, danced in Ghungroo, directed Cultural Rhythms, mentored high school students, and served on the Undergraduate Council, among other things...
...When I first got to Harvard it was difficult for me, because it was a very different environment. I was black, but I didn’t feel like I was from Africa, nor was I African-American. People would ask me, ‘Why are you Nigerian with an English accent?’ It was weird always having to explain myself, and I was constantly feeling a need to conform to something or to be somebody,” explains Johnson...