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...festival invited various interpretations of what it means to look back and move forward. This year, BAF began with a panel discussion about Black Art featuring renowned poet and writer Amiri Baraka, one of the central figures in the Black Arts movement in Harlem during the 1960s. The panel also featured two perspectives from a younger generation—spoken word artist Joshua Bennett and scholar Cameron Leader-Picone, a fellow at Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute. In defining Black Art, Baraka spoke of his experiences growing up in a segregated society and took an explicitly political...

Author: By Matthew C. Stone, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Festival Celebrates Diversity | 3/9/2010 | See Source »

...centuries. Judged by that measure - and notwithstanding the pathetic failure to prevent or quickly end the wars of the Yugoslav succession - the E.U. has worked out fine. For most of that time, its leaders have been happy to concentrate on domestic policies: a single market, a European currency, free movement of people. The E.U.'s defenders, moreover, would argue that in its immediate neighborhood, its success has had a "demonstration effect" that is not to be underestimated. Just as Greece, Portugal and Spain wanted to lock in their democratic rights by joining the E.U. in the 1980s, so when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Incredible Shrinking Europe | 3/8/2010 | See Source »

...Sudanese government has agreed to a peace deal with the most powerful rebel group in the war-ravaged Darfur region, the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM). The cease-fire, signed after a year of negotiations, was described by Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir as a "major step" toward ending the seven-year conflict in which non-Arab African rebel groups have battled the Arab-dominated government. The agreement paves the way for JEM's inclusion in the government and may ease international pressure against al-Bashir's controversial administration ahead of the national election. However, the absence of other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 3/8/2010 | See Source »

...portraits in Adams Art Space will be accompanied by paragraphs explaining how each participant understands or connects with the movement and are meant to be visual reminders that feminism can exist in all types of people...

Author: By Alice E. M. Underwood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Groups Host Women’s Week Party | 3/8/2010 | See Source »

...made up of those who left the IRA 10 years ago or longer," says John Mooney, co-author of Black Operations, a book on the 1998 Real IRA bombing of Omagh that killed 29 people. "The people involved in these latest attacks only recently defected from the mainstream republican movement and no longer believe in the strategy being pursued by Sinn Fein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Divisions in Northern Ireland Are Reopening | 3/8/2010 | See Source »

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