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Tag: W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research
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The dream, 50 years later
Thousands will join President Obama at the Lincoln Memorial on Wednesday to mark the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and celebrate a powerful moment in the Civil Rights Movement. The commemoration stirs not only potent memories of that day, but for some with Harvard ties, mixed emotions about the march’s lasting legacy.
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A freedom fighter looks back
Andrew Young — minister, activist, politician, and diplomat — reflected during a Harvard appearance on the battles of the American civil rights era, and on the economic problems that remain.
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The ‘last Renaissance man’
In the second of three lectures on founding father Thomas Jefferson, historian William J. Moses probed the stark contrasts that the third president showed in his writings and behavior, in his character and his intellect.
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Digital society from the bottom up
Kicking off the first in a three-part lecture series sponsored by the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, “Exclusions and Inequality in Digital Societies: Theories, Evidence, and Strategy,” Ernest J. Wilson III, examined what the transition to a digital society means for “those at the bottom.”
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Creating a whole from fragments
A show by artist Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, which examines issues of family and the Afro-Latin experience in America, opened Thursday at the Neil L. & Angelica Zander Rudenstine Gallery in the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research.
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Taking a Thursday tour
This summer, the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research is offering tours of its art collection. Led at noon on Thursdays by Sheldon Cheek, senior curatorial associate for the Image of the Black in Western Art Project and Photo Archive, at the Rudenstine Gallery.
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Prince as ‘knowing big brother’
The musician Prince’s painful past as a child of divorce is the key to understanding what makes him tick — and what makes him an icon to Generation X, according to Touré, the cultural critic and author. Touré is presenting the Alain LeRoy Locke Lecture Series.
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In a land of equality, racism
“Queloides,” an art exhibit visiting Harvard, shows how racial stereotypes prevailed even after the Cuban Revolution.
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The melding of American music
Backed by an all-star band, Wynton Marsalis explored the “mulatto identity of our national music” with a rollicking performance and a thoughtful lecture on America’s porous tuneful genres at Sanders Theatre Feb. 6.
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Putting history on trial
Historians can prove useful in a courtroom, a case involving Kenyan abuse reveals, and they can learn a lot too.
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Obama’s narrative
Mixing historical perspective, personal reminiscence, and psychological analysis, Harvard Law School Professor Charles J. Ogletree Jr. kicked off a three-part lecture series titled “Understanding Obama” Tuesday at the Barker Center as part of the Nathan I. Huggins Lecture Series.
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An artist who disrupted convention
Artists and scholars gathered at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum Nov. 3 for a panel discussion on the work of 20th-century artist Romare Bearden. The event celebrated “Color and Construction: The Intimate Vision of Romare Bearden,” which runs through Dec. 9.
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Principled expression
A new exhibition of works at the Rudenstine Gallery explores the work of artist Elizabeth Catlett.
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A moving tribute
Friends and colleagues offered heartfelt remembrances during a memorial service for the Rev. Peter J. Gomes.
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Rev. Peter J. Gomes dies at 68
The Rev. Professor Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church at Harvard University, died from complications arising from a stroke on Feb. 28. He was 68 years old.
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Chinese scholars celebrate Gates
Specialists in African-American and American literature from across China gathered on Dec. 11 and 12 at the Beijing Foreign Studies University to commemorate the 60th birthday of Henry Louis Gates Jr.
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The outlook for Africa
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice argued that the United States’ continued involvement in African affairs is good for international stability and for the American idea in “The National Interest, Africa, and the African Diaspora: Does U.S. Foreign Policy Connect the Dots?” — the first of three W.E.B. Du Bois lectures on the black experience…
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Being black in Western art
A research project and photo archive, as well as an art installation and the publication of reissued works on the image of the black in Western art, come to life at Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute.
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‘Africa in Motion’
A two-day celebration of African studies at Harvard highlighted cultural elements such as dance and artwork, study and travel on the continent, and scholarly discussions of Africa’s status today.
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‘Africans in Black & White’
The Du Bois Institute opens a new exhibit at the Rudenstine Gallery in conjunction with the M. Victor Leventritt Symposium and a 10-book series.
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Hip-hop’s global reach
A two-day conference explores the global reach of hip-hop and examines how teachers can use it in the classroom to convey important lessons about art, culture, language, and society.
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The Haitian apocalypse
A Harvard panel looks at the Haitian crisis through the lens of both history and medicine.
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Gates receives European Culture of Peace Award
Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. has been awarded the European Science and Culture Award from the City for the Cultures of Peace in Berlin. The award is given in recognition of his fight against the abuse of human rights, racism, and discrimination, and efforts on behalf of the victims of oppression. Gates, the Alphonse…
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Gates’ scholarship, ‘African American Lives’ honored
Alphonse Fletcher Jr. University Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. has recently been named the recipient of three awards in recognition of his scholarship and for the cultural impact of “African American Lives,” the PBS series created and produced by Gates, New York’s Channel 13, and Kunhardt Productions. Since first airing in February 2006, “African American…