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President Faust’s two-day installation has been marked by its diversity, and especially significant at an institution such as Harvard, its modernity. Toni Morrison, arguably the quintessential modern novelist, spoke to a full house at Memorial Church yesterday. This afternoon, the Pan-African dance troupe will lead the robed procession of academics instead of the traditional bagpipe players. And, of course, Drew Gilpin Faust will be the first woman to speak from the steps of Memorial Church as president of the University...
...Harvard is not required to do any of these things, nor is it required to be a diverse place that highlights the Pan-African dance troupe or elects a woman to its highest office. In the not-too-distant past, neither of these events would have happened; it took the institution’s human side—the strength of its community members’ moral convictions—to push it toward the image of Harvard that will be on full view today in Tercentenary Theatre...
...soon as I heard it, I knew I needed to learn it,” he said.He got his own djembe after saving up money from various jobs and started to take lessons with Camara, who teaches at the Harvard Dance Center and is the main instructor of the Pan-African Dance and Music Ensemble (PADAME). Ogunnaike has been studying with him ever since.Ogunnaike says that he hopes his passion for drumming is infectious. “When you drum, you make people move,” he says. “It’s almost impossible...
Black identity was historically progressive in another important respect: from very early in the 19th century through the civil rights movement, it was strikingly cosmopolitan. Black leaders took a deep interest in oppressed peoples throughout the world. The Pan-African movement and early black nationalism were part of emerging notions of black solidarity. Blacks took deep pride in the Haitian revolution, and black American missionaries played an important role in the Christianization of Jamaican and other West Indian blacks. Black Americans were also open to the inspiration of black immigrants: W.E.B. DuBois's father was Haitian; James Weldon Johnson...
...poorest populations, according to Lee. “I’m working class and African American,” she said. “I feel like the struggles of the people in Oaxaca are similar to the struggles of African Americans in America.” Ogunnaike will use his fellowship to study music in the West African country of Mali. He has been playing the djembe drum since his freshman year and, last year, helped start the Harvard College Pan-African Dance Ensemble. Riley said she intends to travel to Seychelles, an island chain in the Indian...