Tag: Jamaica Kincaid

  • Nation & World

    For Harvard professors, these are a few of their favorite things

    Harvard professors reflect on a few of their favorite things, and what makes them so.

    15 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Powerful voices

    The W.E.B. Du Bois Medal was awarded to seven recipients, who were recognized for their outstanding contributions to African-American culture. The special ceremony concluded with a ribbon-cutting for the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Given to composition

    Novelist and essayist Jamaica Kincaid was among the participants in a panel on the first day of Harvard LitFest, which continues through Thursday .

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Africa’s love supreme

    On Friday, a Harvard religious studies group — the only one to focus on faith traditions from the African diaspora — hosts a conference to investigate the varieties of love: devotion, intimacy, and ecstasy.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Hip-hop Harvard

    A new book, “The Anthology of Rap,” celebrates the lyricism of rap and has earned its place in the Hiphop Archive at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research.

    8 minutes