Tag: African American

  • Nation & World

    Harvard Foundation names Laurence Fishburne the 2007 Artist of the Year

    Actor, producer, and director Laurence Fishburne has been named the 2007 Artist of the Year by the Harvard Foundation. Fishburne, the unanimous choice of the selection committee, will be awarded the foundation’s most prestigious medal at Harvard’s annual Cultural Rhythms ceremony on Saturday afternoon (Feb. 24) at Sanders Theatre.

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  • Nation & World

    The evolution of the blues

    Paul Oliver, probably the world’s foremost scholar of the blues, first heard African-American vernacular music during World War II when a friend brought him to listen to black servicemen stationed in England singing work songs they had brought with them from the fields and lumber camps of the Deep South. Oliver was enthralled by the…

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  • Nation & World

    Portrait unveiling

    The late Eileen Jackson Southern, a music scholar and Harvard’s first black female tenured professor, is the subject of the latest painting in the Minority Portraiture Project, established in 2002 by the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations.

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  • Nation & World

    Modern Language Association honors Gates with Hubbell Medal

    The American Literature Section of the Modern Language Association (MLA) last month presented its highest professional award to Henry Louis Gates Jr., the W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro American Research.

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  • Nation & World

    Portrait of former Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett is unveiled

    The Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations has unveiled a seventh portrait in its Minority Portraiture Project.

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  • Nation & World

    Sons of American Revolution welcome Gates

    Henry Louis Gates Jr., W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard, was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution (SAR) on July 10 at the society’s 116th annual convention, held in Addison, Texas.

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