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...shrieked at the footman. “I told you to bring a stallion!”************In her modest chambers, Roxanna sat in a ray of sunlight, brushing her liquid cornsilk locks. She was only wearing her shift; it seemed foolish to put on more clothes when Frederick would be arriving at any minute.There was a knock at the door, and Roxanna leapt up, ready to greet Frederick with the basket of fresh biscuits she had made for him that morning. “Come in, my love!” she called.It was Felicity...
...quoted 1859 speech “Self-Made Men,” Frederick Douglass famously declared that men were the “architects of their own good fortunes,” and that successful men were “indebted to themselves for themselves.” Today, the speech is often read as a proclamation of “the American Dream,” the idea that men can go from nothing to something—as Douglass himself did—if only they would work hard enough. This whole Rags-to-Riches trope, says Malcolm...
Harvard’s African and African American Studies department is located in an intimate area on the second floor of the Barker Center. Some walls are covered in accolades for faculty members and students. Others are adorned with photographs of luminaries including W.E.B DuBois, Richard Wright, and Frederick Douglass. Still others are hung with more than 30 black and white portraits of Harvard’s first black students...
...color of a country's rulers than anything else. Following this logic, America has now, by the election of a black President, changed her status to that of a Third World country. I have no doubt that the developing world will gladly welcome the U.S. as its new leader. Frederick C. Roberts, FAERIE GLEN, SOUTH AFRICA
...driven him to leave his administrative position.Ellison also called for Summers to step down as president, making him the highest-profile Harvard affiliate to do so.Summers’ battle with the Faculty reached its breaking point at a Feb. 7, 2006 faculty meeting, when engineering professor Frederick H. Abernathy, who had never previously addressed the Faculty during Summers’ tenure, questioned the University president’s involvement in a national scandal that implicated one of Summers’ close friends and colleagues in Harvard’s economics department.In the early 1990s, Andrei Shleifer had been...