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Whether the program is a novel step toward revamping academia or a return to the African and African American Studies Department’s roots, it is taking education into what Darryl calls the “reality realm.” If there is an ivory tower, Professor Higginbotham is tearing it down...

Author: By Nicole Savdie, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Getting Out of the Ivory Tower | 11/19/2009 | See Source »

...merger with Travelers, an insurance company. The one-time “financial supermarket” was exposed as a bloated, mismanaged basket case by the financial crisis. Today, Citigroup is selling many of its investment and insurance divisions in an effort to reach a more manageable size and return to profitability...

Author: By Anthony P. Dedousis | Title: Too Big to Fail is Too Big | 11/19/2009 | See Source »

...Sprinkle, former prostitute and porn actress with a Ph.D. from The Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, and her partner Elizabeth M. Stephens, a professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz, explain ways to show the planet some good loving and get a whole lot in return...

Author: By Michelle B. Timmerman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Annie M. Sprinkle and Elizabeth M. Stephens | 11/19/2009 | See Source »

...Harvard Yard by Francis James Child, ballad collector and Harvard professor. His storied ballad collection, the result of a years-long literary search collaboration with folk song collectors in other countries, was a resource that singers such as Joan Baez, Tom Rush, and Eric Von Schmidt would later return to as a source of folk tradition...

Author: By Rachel T. Lipson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Club 47 Revisited | 11/19/2009 | See Source »

...some ways, this was a revolutionary development; the chords of bluegrass and southern blues were foreign to the ears of many of the young Northeasterners. At the same time, though, this was a return to the traditions of America’s rich musical past. “There was certainly intellectual interest in the music, but also just a, ‘Wow, you don’t hear this kind of music around Cambridge. You don’t hear people talking about coal mining or tenant farming,’” said Millie Rahn, Folklorist...

Author: By Rachel T. Lipson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Club 47 Revisited | 11/19/2009 | See Source »

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