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Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, professor of Afro-American studies and of history, is taking the semester off to recover from recent surgery. Other department officials have picked up her teaching and administrative duties...
...Higginbotham has had an operation and will be out for the fall semester to fully recover," the e-mail message read...
Before her operation in late October, Higginbotham, who was also acting head tutor for the department, had been teaching one class...
Patricia A. Sullivan, a visiting lecturer and an associate of the W.E.B. DuBois Institute, assumed responsibility for the seminar, History 1660, "Using Primary Sources in African-American History." Sullivan, who took over Higginbotham's duties Oct. 27 and who will be teaching until the end of the term, said the transition has been smooth...
...worked. Thomas "has done more to turn back the clock of racial progress than has perhaps any other African-American public official," says A. Leon Higginbotham Jr., a retired federal judge (who is more qualified for the high court than Thomas). Thomas has voted against minority set-aside programs in federal contracting, against creating majority-black congressional districts and even questioned the logic of Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 landmark ruling that struck down segregated schools. It's the substance of those judicial opinions that offends Thomas' critics--not his complexion...