Word: higginbothams
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...President of Entertainment for BET Reginald A. Hudlin ’83 showing clips for a discussion of “Representations of Blacks in the Media.” Calling the weekend a “great minds movement,” Af-Am Department Chair Evelyn B. Higginbotham said that the weekend served “as a collective for discussing the issues that are current in our world today for African American people and people of African descent.” At a bustling black-tie affair in the Cambridge Marriott, keynote speaker Stephanie K. Bell-Rose...
...Lorand Matory ’82 said of West. “He’s so smart, so popular, he’s the kind of person anyone would want to have at his university.”But Af-Am Chair Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham said that West’s return was speculation. “We certainly love West, and we’d certainly love to have him back,” she said. But “it’s definitely a rumor.”West could not be reached for comment...
...quest to achieve racial equality and understand the impact of race on the life and institutions of the United States.” In an e-mail response to the news at Princeton, the chair of African and African American Studies at Harvard, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, wrote, “We celebrate the idea of Princeton’s commitment to expand its faculty and its courses in the field—that Princeton is committed to furthering the study of race relations must be applauded by anyone who takes seriously the role of education in solving social problems...
...Imagine coming into a department, having no idea what it would look like—for me that was a wonderful challenge to be part of a building process,” Higginbotham recalls. “I feel honored to be able to take the helm from a leader such as Skip Gates but also to be part of a new dream...
...predecessor said he is energized by her many ideas. “It’s the Higginbotham era,” Gates declared...