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W. E. B. Du Bois, Class of 1890, once said he realized "all the irony" whenever he sang "Fair Harvard." Future founder of the NAACP, Du Bois was also the only black undergraduate in his class.
"There's no one like him," says Du Bois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr., who serves as the chair of the Afro-American studies department. "He's a brilliant philosopher. He possesses a keen analytical mind, and he is blessed woratory. I know no on else...
In 1991, Gates assumed leadership of thedepartment and the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute forAfro-American Research, and soon Harvard againcame knocking. In 1994, West answered.
W.E.B. DU BOIS The great African-American intellectual is the Person of the Century for me. Du Bois was the first black Ph.D. from Harvard; he was one of the founding fathers of the field of sociology. He helped establish the N.A.A.C.P. and edited its journal, The Crisis, for 24...
Ellsworth Kelly: The Early Drawings, featuring 220 drawings and collages, seeks to trace Kelly's formative years in France as a young artist searching not for self but for non-self. As Yve-Alain Bois, Joseph Pulitzer Jr. Professor of Modern Art, points out "the grail he (Kelly) sought was...