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The stage is being set for the next phase in the struggle for the leadership of black America. That struggle began in slavery, when the great abolitionist Frederick Douglass emerged as the first unquestioned spokesman for the African-American agenda. Over the decades, the battle to inherit Douglass's mantle...
Du Bois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr. was appointed Tuesday to the advisory board of Digital Learning Interactive, a company providing online resources to college professors.
Comfort Me with Apples recounts how that voice was nourished, intertwining Reichl's professional coming of age with her not-unrelated emergence into full-blown womanhood. As such, it is a very adult meditation on love. The title borrows a line from the Song of Solomon that Reichl discovered in...
Baldwin hated the Harlem of the 1950s, when drugs, the numbers game and prostitution poisoned a place graced by George Gershwin and Billie Holiday during the decades before the end of the Second World War. In the 1960s, when Clinton walked 125th Street, things got worse. But from the teens...
Panelists--including W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr., Law School Professor Charles J. Ogletree and a number of jazz experts and critics--explored the impact of jazz on American history and culture through the context of the documentary.