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...black quasi-alternative to Christmas. The inspiration for Kwanzaa was born not in a manger, but in the mind of a would-be wise man, Dr. Maulana Karenga, a college professor in the 1960s. The holiday is founded on a fairly simple, if somewhat alarming, syllogism: blacks share a common African cultural heritage; blacks do not have a winter holiday of their own to celebrate; so blacks ought to have a holiday of their own with African underpinnings, festive rituals and all the trappings of a religious feast...
Celebration of rightly famous historical figures, both American and black, supports a source of black identity and pride significantly more relevant and accessible to modern black Americans than any notion of common African cultural heritage. Also, both blacks and whites celebrate Black History Month. As McDonald's and Better Foods evince, Black History Month lacks all of Kwanzaa's exclusivity and divisiveness. Black History Month provides a unifying, healing celebration of black identity...
Something different and cool. AMAGAMA "words," a night of spoken word sponsored by the Black Students Association and the Harvard Advocate. Winthrop House Junior Common Room. 8 to 10:30 p.m. FREE...
Beside the presidential portrait, a picture of Frank Sinatra (a remarkably common item in the North End) and a portrait of the Virgin Mary line the walls...
Host more guests and professors for dinners and discussions in the Houses. The Senior Common Rooms (SCR), the loose network of professors and visiting scholars affiliated with each House, are grossly underutilized. Students never meet most of these luminaries; the few accessible ones pop in for an occasional Sunday brunch. Why not have SCR members lead discussion panels on interesting issues of the day or give general talks about their fields of research? Also, when SCR members host prominent visitors to their departments, perhaps they could invite those guests to the House for dinner or discussion...