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...field in a way that has a social or political impact. Professor Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, the chair of African and African American Studies, explains why she spearheaded the program when she became chair of the department in 2006. “What we were trying to do was to wed a very sophisticated, rigorous, intellectual program—very much a Harvard academic course of study—to something experiential...

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

Mainers' 53-47 vote to reject gay marriage does more than simply slap down a law that just six months ago had made Maine the U.S.'s second state to permit same-sex couples to wed. With voters thronging to the polls, the closely watched - and ultimately not very close - vote extended the winning streak of gay-marriage opponents nationwide, who have now prevailed in more than 30 straight state elections over whether to allow gays to marry. Just like Californians one year ago, Maine voters insisted on having their say on an issue that simply will not go away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gay-Marriage Activists Look Ahead After Maine Defeat | 11/4/2009 | See Source »

JULIAN BOND, chairman of the NAACP, during an Oct. 11 speech in which he urged African Americans to support the right of gays to wed. A recent Pew Research Center poll found that two-thirds of black Protestants oppose same-sex marriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

...marriage has rolled from state to state, almost always stoking fierce debate and bitter acrimony. On Tuesday, Washington, D.C., became the battlefield when council member David Catania, an at-large independent, introduced legislation that would make the nation's capital the latest jurisdiction where gays and lesbians could legally wed, and the only one south of the Mason-Dixon Line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gay Weddings in Washington by Winter? | 10/7/2009 | See Source »

...It’s a privilege to wed the person you love and want to spend the rest of your life with,” Simmons said of her wife, who is an administrator with a program that aims to aid young women in the juvenile detention system in New York...

Author: By Liyun Jin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cambridge Mayor Simmons Marries Longtime Partner in Historic Same-Sex Marriage Ceremony | 9/1/2009 | See Source »

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