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...cases, often those involving criminal law and police powers. Even John Paul Stevens supports them on many free-speech issues. That leaves Thurgood Marshall and Harry Blackmun, both 82, the oldest members of the court, as its only unbudging liberals. "The swing Justices no longer control the outcome," says Duke University law professor Walter Dellinger. "There's no swing Justice, really...
...Black City pictures dance lightly around searing social dilemmas. Bill Duke's A Rage in Harlem is an old-fashioned gangster movie, content to showcase Robin Givens' pert charms. And Michael Schultz's Livin' Large!, a kind of Homeboy Alone, hatches broad but pointed comedy from the perspective of a black street reporter (Terrence (("T.C.")) Carson) who lands a job with an all-white news team. But most of the films sketch, in furious strokes, a portrait of the ghetto and of its most feared and hopeless denizen, the black male...
...finest collagists of the 20th century and the most distinguished black visual artist America has so far produced: the only one, perhaps, who rivaled in his own time and field the achievements of Ralph Ellison and James Baldwin, Alvin Ailey and Arthur Mitchell, Earl Hines and Duke Ellington in theirs. His retrospective at the Studio Museum in Harlem is an exhilarating show marred by a sloppy catalog. This will not matter too much to the audience the exhibition will acquire as it moves around the museums of America, ending in 1993 in Washington. The art, as always, is what counts...
After overseeing what has been billed as the rebirth of Afro-American Studies and helping Harvard land Duke University Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., Afro-Am Chair Barbara E. Johnson this year agreed to assume the chair of the Women's Studies Department next year...
...organization has gained popularity not only among conservative scholars, but also among liberals at schools such as Duke University. Says Wilson, NAS has evolved to include people on both sides of the political spectrum...