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The answer: it was not. The alma mater of Philosopher W.E.B. DuBois (class of 1888), among other distinguished alumni, is still alive--not kicking, not out of the red, but alive. The paint is peeling, the roofs leak and ruptured heating pipes spout plumes of steam in places that once...
The student body, what was left of it, was demoralized. In just over a decade, enrollment had dropped by roughly two-thirds and was holding at around 500. Student activities had been slashed to nothing. The newspaper was gone. The library--whose special collections hold not only the works of...
"The state level should use its degree of expertise in licensing, and the locals should have the final authority," said John J. DuBois, a legislative aide to Gallagher
The theme of the irresponsibility of these elites runs throughout all of the informed sociological and cultural commentary on Afro-American life. In the work of Frazier, Cayton, Drake, Bunche, et al., this theme is consistently pressed. In the serious literature which analyzes the organizational revolution of black urban social...
Let us return to the example of Blacks at Harvard as a model of Afro-Americans in elite educational institutions across the country. Anti-intellectualism is for too many a way of life. And partying has traditionally been their most successful organizing activity. Also at Harvard one may read The...