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Eugene F. Rivers III still chuckles at what he says was his best quip ever--the time he called Du Bois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates, Jr. "the emcee at the Cotton Club on the Charles."
Professors, city officials and local teens gathered at Baker House, a settlement house here, to open a new after-school program sponsored by the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Studies.
The program, the brainchild of Du Bois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr., is designed to teach neighborhood kids about the Internet through content that focuses on black history and culture.
Over the course of the next two years, Gates, Appiah, art historian Karen Dalton and other Du Bois Institute staff secured a $200,000 grant from the Markel Foundation, cultivated a number of smaller donors, established a relationship with the Baker House and developed detailed curricula.
The Du Bois Institute has hired Educational Development Center (EDC) in Newton to evaluate the program, and the idea that engaging content can facilitate the development of digital skills, over the next year.