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Richard A. Newman, one of Harvard’s most famous scholars of African-American studies, died Monday of brain cancer...
...There was only one candidate, of course, for our fantasy position, and that was Richard Newman,” he said...
...Newman was a research officer at Harvard’s W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Studies from 1992 until his retirement last month. DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr. praised Newman’s vast knowledge of black history in a speech at Newman’s retirement party entitled “One Hundred Amazing Acts...about Richard Newman; or, The Incognegro...
Gates called Newman “sort of an ‘Ask Mr. Wizard’ for black history, a pen-and-ink Google for blackness, long before Google was conceived...
...nation's top pool players rack 'em up before crowds in bleachers, is an old-fashioned pool hall, famous for its grit, its smoky aroma, its hints of intrigue and unsavory wheeling and dealing. For years the club, where Martin Scorsese filmed scenes of his 1986 Tom Cruise--Paul Newman hit, The Color of Money, was the kind of place parents warned their children to stay away from. Yet on a recent Tuesday afternoon Diana Dobrzynski, 5, was there shooting a few games with her brother Joshua, 12, and her grandmother, retired police officer Pat Hays, a pool teacher...