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...reading first in their native tongue and then the English translation. Readings varied from “Nunca Más: The Report of the Argentine National Commission on the Disappeared” to excerpts from a student declaration distributed at Tiananmen Square to a selection from W.E.B. Du Bois?? “Human Rights for All Minorities”; countries from Iran to Hungary to Africa were represented, and all were accompanied by an appropriate musical interlude.Lastly, the honored guest of the evening was introduced: Toni Morrison, the Nobel and Pulitzer prize-winning author...
...page 130 of his book, Brooks—paraphrasing Du Bois??writes: “African Americans must make choices that are beneficial to their community, such as supporting African American merchants...
...this gallery, to spend time in this gallery, and to suggest new exhibitions,” said Karen C. C. Dalton, assistant director of the Institute. Many in attendance expressed admiration for Gates’ leadership of the Institute. Rudenstine, who presented Gates with a first edition of Du Bois?? “The Souls of Black Folk,” remarked that he “can’t say enough about Skip [Gates]” and praised Gates’ “amazing amount of energy and commitment and devotion...
...highlight the interplay between soloist and choir, as the soloist leads with an ornamented phrase (“Get your house in order!”) and the choir responds with a potent punch (“Do it today!”) One song opens with W.E.B. Du Bois?? Class of 1890 description of the “sorrow songs,” and builds on heart-rendingly bare renditions of “Swing Low Sweet Chariot” and “Down in Egypt Land,” giving a beautiful account...
...year, has written extensively on race. In the essay “Illusions of Race” from the collection In My Father’s House, Appiah discusses the racial theories of another famous Harvard academic, W. E. B. Du Bois, Class of 1890. After picking apart Du Bois?? theory and showing the racism that underlies it, Appiah states “the truth is that there are no races: there is nothing in the world that can do all we ask race to do for us. Talk of ‘race’ is particularly...