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...Constellation” features a bare tree draped with an antebellum American quilt, surrounded by a representation of the night sky. “Stranger Fruit,” a performance set at the installation, will function in three parts: rock/alternative vocalist Imani Uzuri will sing excerpts of Rumi’s poetry in the style of Negro spirituals; the Harvard KeyChange will perform an a cappella remix of “Strange Fruit,” a song condemning lynching that was popularized by Billie Holiday; and members of KeyChange will hold a call-and-response with Uzuri...

Author: By Alex E. Traub | Title: Going Underground: Biggers’ New Exhibition Explores Slavery | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

Guevara, captain of the current Honduran team, is one of the highest-paid players in United States Major League Soccer. Villegas said that he believes the Honduran team will continue to perform well internationally and that many players from the team will be selected to play in European soccer clubs after the World...

Author: By Mauricio A. Cruz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Visiting Professor Sees Homeland Through Soccer’s Lens | 11/3/2009 | See Source »

...phenomenon of multiculturalism in today’s world often becomes so muddled and clichéd that the cultures represented become vitiated and disconnected from their origins. The Silk Road Project—whose five-year residency at Harvard culminated last Thursday evening with a thrilling performance and ceremony in Memorial Church—is an antidote to this superficiality of the multicultural society. By using expert artists and scholars, the Project seeks to teach communities worldwide about the human commonalities and peculiarities that cultural exchange brings to light.The project was born out of a series of conversations between...

Author: By Matthew H. Coogan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Reaching the End of the Silk Road | 10/30/2009 | See Source »

...organizer of the event getting pelted with glow sticks, and then thinking that telling everyone to stop would definitely work. Without that public humiliation to look forward to, there’s no way I’m going this year (though with Harvard student dance groups slated to perform, the potential for said humiliation may be higher than ever...

Author: By Ryan D. Smith, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hate it: Pep Rally | 10/28/2009 | See Source »

...according to the New York Times, allegedly been paid by the C.I.A. since 2001, to perform tasks including helping grow the Kandahar Strike Force, a U.S.-friendly paramilitary group striking at the Taliban around Kandahar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ahmed Wali Karzai | 10/28/2009 | See Source »

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