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African-American

Missing a Chapter

Missing a ChapterWhile we found your issue, “Harvard’s New Chapter in Black Studies” (see Black Issues, Oct. 9), to be informative, you failed to identify Michigan State University’s Ph.D. program in African American and African Studies (AAAS) on p.33 when listing African Studies programs. AAAS was established in February 2002 and welcomed its first class […]

November 5, 2003

Faculty & Staff

Under the Media’s Radar

Under the Media’s RadarPrinceton’s program in African American studies boasts its own all-star cast High-profile African American studies departments like Harvard’s with certified media stars like Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. usually tend to grab the lion’s share of the headlines. But focusing solely on departments and their “stars” offers a pretty distorted picture of […]

October 8, 2003

Faculty & Staff

Harvard’s New Chapter in Black Studies

Harvard’s New Chapter in Black StudiesA neglected African studies program finally gets a departmental home By Ronald RoachFrom afar, it seemed that Afro-American studies at Harvard had taken a nasty tumble when two of its best-known scholars announced their resignations in early 2002, and its venerable chairman, Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., let it be […]

October 8, 2003

African-American

In Good Company

In Good Company Like many media outlets last year, Black Issues followed the story of the departures of popular Harvard professors Cornel West and Kwame Anthony Appiah to Princeton University.As time went on, the question seemed to be whether Harvard’s Afro-American studies chairman Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. would remain at Harvard or perhaps follow […]

October 8, 2003

African-American

Activists for the NEW MILLENNIUM

Activists for the NEW MILLENNIUM Complacent and politically unaware? Student leaders say young people are screaming, but no one is listening.By Kendra Hamilton Baghdad is burning, and the streets of the world’s cities are full of anti-war protesters — as well as anti-globalization protesters, anti-sweatshop protesters, campus “greens” and much more — but some observers […]

April 23, 2003

African-American

Activists for the NEW MILLENNIUM

Activists for the NEW MILLENNIUM Complacent and politically unaware? Student leaders say young people are screaming, but no one is listening.By Kendra Hamilton Baghdad is burning, and the streets of the world’s cities are full of anti-war protesters — as well as anti-globalization protesters, anti-sweatshop protesters, campus “greens” and much more — but some observers […]

April 23, 2003

African-American

Activists for the NEW MILLENNIUM

Activists for the NEW MILLENNIUM Complacent and politically unaware? Student leaders say young people are screaming, but no one is listening.By Kendra Hamilton Baghdad is burning, and the streets of the world’s cities are full of anti-war protesters — as well as anti-globalization protesters, anti-sweatshop protesters, campus “greens” and much more — but some observers […]

April 23, 2003

African-American

Challenging the Future of Black Studies

Challenging the Future of Black StudiesScholars debate and discover ‘profound generation gap’ at conferenceBy Kendra Hamilton NEW YORKWhile hundreds of Black scholars from across the nation were making plans to converge on New York City last month for what promised to be one of the landmark conferences of the year — “The State of Black […]

March 12, 2003

Faculty & Staff

The Art of High Performance In Technology, Science, Life

The Art of High Performance In Technology, Science, Life In “Mastering the Challenge of High-Performance Computing,” senior writer Ronald Roach examines the nexus between information technology and scientific discovery. For the nation’s colleges and universities to have truly competitive information technology infrastructures, campus leaders will have to adopt innovative technologies in their campus networks that […]

March 12, 2003

African-American

W.E.B. Du Bois: A Towering Intellectual

W.E.B. Du Bois: A Towering Intellectual “Well, you can say Marx, and then you can say Freud, but then you’d better say Du Bois really quickly in the triumvirate of seminal minds,” says John Edgar Wideman, novelist, essayist and distinguished professor of English at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.Dr. David Levering Lewis, the Martin Luther King […]

February 12, 2003

African-American

A Timeless Legacy

A Timeless Legacy Celebrating 100 years of W.E.B. Du Bois’ The Souls of Black FolkBY KENDRA HAMILTON Here’s a little known fact worth savoring on the centennial of the publication of The Souls of Black Folk: Its author, the restlessly brilliant and relentlessly controversial Dr. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, was at Tuskegee University when […]

February 12, 2003

African-American

Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Foundation Marks Progress

Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Foundation Marks ProgressWASHINGTON The Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation Inc. recently announced the progress of the memorial slated to be built on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.“Building a memorial on the National Mall is a complicated process and involves many parties,” says LeRoy Lowery III, executive […]

February 12, 2003