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ROXBURY--The Boston chapter of the NAACP held a press conference yesterday at the People's Baptist Church, stirring the current controversy over Boston Magazine's headline, "Head Negro In Charge," in its April profile of Henry Louis Gates, Jr., W.E.B. DuBois professor of the humanities.
According to DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr., who opened the panel, AIDS is the leading cause of death among blacks aged 24 to 45.
West and DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates, seated like acolytes beside and behind the author, grinned with the audience at her unexpected but graceful bravado. Perhaps their glee stemmed in part from how effectively her comments deflated the near-pomposity with which they had begun the evening...
It was Harvard's W.E.B. DuBois Institute, directed by Gates, that sponsored Morrison's visit, along with the Harvard Book Store and the Cambridge Public Library.
The novelist's other recurrent theme is race. But as a white American writing about blacks, a trick managed by Faulkner and few others, Banks seems too carefully respectful, an earnest '60s liberal. When Owen Brown realizes that he regards a black farmer as an equal but not wholeheartedly as...