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Thompson Room, Barker Center. Oct. 25-27, from 4:00 until 5:30 p.m. Melvin Van Peebles, the maverick filmmaker best known as the writer, director and star of “Sweet Sweetback??s Baadasssss Song” will be delivering this semester’s Alain LeRoy Locke Lectures. The LeRoy lecture series is co-sponsored by the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, the Department of African and African American Studies, and Basic Civitas Books (a division of the Perseus Books Group). They are held in honor of the Harlem Renaissance...

Author: By Bernard L. Parham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: On the Radar: Melvin Van Peebles Lecture Series | 10/20/2005 | See Source »

...appearance at the Harvard Film Archive on the evening of April 25. I am speaking, of course, of legendary African-American author, composer, and filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles. Of his formidable body of work, Van Peebles is best known for his seminal 1971 film “Sweet Sweetback??s Baad Asssss Song,” of which he was director, actor and writer...

Author: By Bernard L. Parham, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The ‘Story’ of Van Peebles | 5/5/2005 | See Source »

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