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DuBois Professor of the Humanities and chair of the Afro-American studies department Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr. kicked off the festivities Saturday by praising the guide’s editors for continuing the dialogue about the black experience at Harvard.
The book opens with a five-page dedication to W.E.B. DuBois, the first black student to gain a doctorate from Harvard. The dedication urges current students to follow in the footsteps of DuBois, and join the fight for increased the diversity of the curriculum and the faculty.
The essays include profiles of famous black Harvard scholars such as W.E.B. DuBois and DuBois Professor of the Humanities and chair of the Afro-American Studies department Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr., as well as a photo history of black life at Harvard.
During the days, the students will be divided into two age groups to take specially designed classes, from Harvard’s top professors—including a lectures by University President and economist Lawrence H. Summers, Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel, IBM Professor of Business and Government...
Watching the Berle-show "Hound Dog," we can feel the career-threatening danger of his burlesque moves, see his hip-level guitar wagging insolently like the first electric phallus. No wonder the onlookers gasped and giggled. They knew they were present for a cultural sea change; and their animosity was...