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...whose name should include equal quantities of each letter of the alphabet, so all feel equally important) in which the rooms are equidistant from every location on and off campus, from the mail center to Logan Airport. In an egalitarian society, I should not have to make the perilous journey across the yard every day, fending off angry foreigners and their pets, if Mr. Canaday can so easily bypass the John Harvard statue and all its accompanying mayhem. But the tyrannical rampage of random privilege does not stop at housing. Mr. Canaday’s well-endowed muscular frame puts...
...chair of Harvard’s African and African-American Studies Department, Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr., may be on crutches, but even a broken ankle did not hinder Gates in a journey through his genealogical and genetic history. “African American Lives,” a PBS documentary that debuted last night, followed Gates and eight other prominent African Americans as they uncovered their ancestral roots...
...genealogical journey, Gates walked away with knowledge of five lines of his family tree, and the pension application of one of his fifth great-grandfathers, a free black who fought in the Revolutionary War. He originally had known only one line of his family tree back to the birth of his paternal great-great-grandmother in 1819, Gates said...
...Gates did not stop at compiling family trees within the United States, but continued the journey into Africa with genetic technology...
...journey into colonial and post-Revolutionary American history was dictated in part by the life of her research subject, midwife Martha Ballard...