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...vicious” as the Concord Library Committee so notoriously did (and the New York Times reported) in 1885, but many still echo the concerns about racism the NAACP first presented in the 1950s—particularly with respect to Huck’s traveling companion, the runaway slave...
...year of Huckleberry Finn’s publication, Rawles’ book relates the life of Jim’s remarkably resilient wife, Sadie Watson, a slave who works as a healer and a cook, among other things, as she passes between owners in the antebellum South. It is framed, plausibly, if not very originally, as a story Sadie tells to her granddaughter Marianne Libre, while, in the grand tradition of Penelope, Scheherazade and, more recently, Winona Ryder’s Finn Dodd, they make a kind of memory quilt...
...stare, or that same stare preceded by something about “Back to Africa.” Arguably the most overlooked and misunderstood black leader of the past century, Garvey led the second-largest organized mass movement of people of African ancestry—exceeded only by the slave trade. He was the father of the Pan-African movement and the grandfather of the civil rights and African nationalist movements of the 1950s and 1960s and the black self-determination efforts of the 1970s. Without Garvey, there would be no Black Panther Party, Kwame Nkrumah, Malcolm X or even...
Many students will undoubtedly slave over the survey’s questions, perhaps utilizing the 10-day window for profile alterations to artificially raise their compatibility rating with a prospective love interest or maybe trying to decipher the website’s “mathematical formulas” to find out just what lights their Valentine’s flame. Regardless of how one uses it, Crimsoncupid seems likely to take its place as the latest valuable addition to the Harvard student’s social arsenal, a repertoire that has earlier been bolstered by Thefacebook.com and Zachary...
...installing a new heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system and reconfiguring library space and traffic flow, library officials said they have ensured the safety and security of Schlesinger’s holdings. The collections include letters from Amelia Earhart and Harriet Beecher Stowe, a cookbook written by a former slave, and the papers of poet June Jordan, according to a recent press release...