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Tag: Skip Gates
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Arts & Culture
Frederick Douglass as 19th-century influencer
A Wadsworth Atheneum show, curated by Sarah Elizabeth Lewis and Skip Gates, explores Douglass’ embrace of the emerging art of photography.
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Arts & Culture
The great eight
Bestowed by the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, eight laureates received the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal at Sanders Theatre for their contributions to African and African-American history and culture.
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Arts & Culture
African-American folklore inspires meeting of the minds
Harvard scholars Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr. and Maria Tatar discuss the collaborative effort behind “The Annotated African American Folktales.”
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Campus & Community
Probing how colleges benefited from slavery
Hundreds of listeners from Harvard and beyond packed a Radcliffe auditorium on Friday for a series of wrenching discussions about the historical role of universities in the propagation of slavery. After calling on Harvard last year to investigate further its ties to slavery, President Drew Faust convened a faculty committee to develop the conference, called…
