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...school’s surprising ability to close its budget gap last year was due to the performance of its cost-cutting measures, according to Executive Dean J. Bonnie Newman, who noted that no administrative unit of the school exceeded the tight budgets that had been...
...Newman, who was white, was born and raised in upstate New York and educated at an all-white college in Tennessee, Newman became a Presbyterian minister in Syracuse, N.Y. That was where he met Martin Luther King Jr., and shortly afterward decided to devote his life to working for liberty and equality for black people...
When he came to Harvard, Newman took on many roles...
Gates said Newman was “instrumental” in the editing of the web-based Africana encyclopedia. He helped choose the contributors, decide its breadth of research and even wrote many articles himself, Gates said...
Gates said the death of Newman, whom he has called “the blackest scholar I know,” a significant loss to the field of African-American studies...