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For years, Rivers has labeled Gates and other members of the "black elite intelligentsia" as ivory tower intellectuals who do little other than engage in theoreticals, far removed from the facts of life in poor black communities.
The debate continued at a Kennedy School forum later that same year, called "The responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Crack." Panelists included Gates, Rivers and Fletcher Jr. University Professor Cornel West.
Rivers penned another essay in 1995 calling for the formulation of what he called an "activist research agenda." Rivers says the call went unheeded, though Gates had always professed his respect for Rivers.
Relations between Gates and Rivers were commonly acknowledged to be strained--several articles mentioned their strained rapport.
But with the October inauguration of the Martin Luther King, Jr. after-school program, a cooperative effort between Rivers and Gates targeting digital illiteracy among Dorchester youth, that characterization seems poised to change.