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Just when you think it's time to hunker down and read a few of Encarta Africana's 3,361 articles, you'll stumble across a series of video lectures that highlight the work's major themes. Music producer Quincy Jones and comedian Whoopi Goldberg discuss race and music; the volume's co-editors, Harvard professors Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Kwame Anthony Appiah, explain the struggle begun in 1909 by black scholar W.E.B. Du Bois to publish an encyclopedia that would chronicle black history...
...video clips include segments of Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West '74 talking about freedom, actor Whoopi Goldberg on race, Jones discussing music, poet Maya Angelou speaking about the black diaspora and U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan discussing Africa. Appiah and Gates also have a clip on the encyclopedia's origins...
...stage, she referred to herself once as Caryn, the name her mother calls her in Book. Whoopi spoke of being influenced by her mother, Emma, as well as by Anne Frank. It was their advice that became part of her spirituality and code of life. Advocating dialogue, because of the understanding it can bring, she enjoys searching for the truth and learning about the experiences of other people's lives...
...Jewish, she was asked why she converted to Judaism. She gave a bold retort and asked, "What makes you think I converted?" With a knowing smile, she said her mother was Jewish and that she is not a follower of any one religion but practices humanism. While Whoopi analyzes and attacks the Catholic Church in her writing, on stage she professed one of the rules she tries to live by: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto...
...presents one face to the general public, but in Sanders she was somewhat different. On stage in jeans, she seemed very much like "one of the people;" yet surrounded by her entourage, she seemed a part of another world. How do you know which Whoopi is real? How do you not feel a little betrayed by the fact that most of the answers she gave to the questions from the crowd at Sanders can be found in her book? You can't. Deal. It's not to say that Whoopi was fake--clearly she was not. She just knew...