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...W.E.B. Du Bois expressed this idea better: "I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not," Du Bois wrote. "Across the color line I move arm in arm with Balzac and Dumas, where smiling men and welcoming women glide in glided halls. From out of the caves of evening that swing between the strong-limbed earth and the tracery of stars, I summon Aristotle and Aurelius and what soul I will, and they come all graciously with no scorn or condescension. So, wed with Truth, I dwell above the Veil...
...always condemned the persecution of difference. But the young people who run into the well-dressed brothers on the street hawking the Nation of Islam's paper do not know about the intimate cooperative work done by blacks and Jews in the era roughly spanning the life of W.E.B. Du Bois, from the days of immigration from Europe to the days leading up to the march on Washington in 1963. They do not know much about slavery or the Holocaust in Europe. But Minister Farrakhan is there. He says he cares what happens to them, a simple statement rarely made...
Kathleen Battle, the famously temperamental soprano, was summarily fired by New York's Metropolitan Opera. Reason: "unprofessional actions" during rehearsals for Donizetti's La Fille du Regiment. Battle said she was "saddened" by the decision...
...Du Bois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr., chair of the Department of Afro-American Studies, as quoted in The New York Times, Feb. 7. Gates was describing an incident of the week before, in Paris, where he had participated in a conference entitled "A Visual Arts Encounter: African-Americans and Europe...
...certainly sold the movie to gays; Philadelphia has been the hot topic for a month, and nobody wants to miss out on the dish du jour. Cocktail parties are peppered with objections to the plot: Why does Andy Beckett (the Hanks character) get no more than a chaste kiss from his lover (Antonio Banderas)? Why is his case rejected by 10 lawyers, when even a simpleton knows that the ACLU, the LAMBDA defense fund and many other groups would jump at the chance of a precedent-setting suit? Why is Andy's huge family so conspicuously loving, so unanimously supportive...