"Gates Recounts Racial History"
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Between 1986 and 1997 Jacob Lawrence created fifteen large silk-screen prints identical to key images from his earlier 1937 series, The Life of Toussaint L’Ouverture. On view at the Rudenstine Gallery during the Fall 2009 semester, the prints tell the story of Toussaint L’Ouverture, born a slave, but who rose to lead the liberation of Haiti. Captured by the invading troops of Napoleon Bonaparte, he died in a French prison the year before Haiti won its independence in 1804.
(C) 2009 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
"SC board pardons 2 black men executed 94 years ago"
"94 Years Later, S. Carolina Pardons Two Death Row Inmates"
"Gates Honored for Academic Works"
"Harvard's Gates Wins Literary Award"
Globe article is at bottom of page -- view pdf
"Michelle’s Great-Great-Great-Granddaddy—and Yours"
"One Family’s Roots, a Nation’s History"
Black Alumni Weekend
Alphonse Fletcher, Jr. and Lewis P. Jones III each received honors at the Harvard Black Alumni Weekend. Also present was fellow board member Henry McGee, who was a panelist for the talk, Philanthropy in the New Economy: Prospects, Challenges, and Successes.
"The Essence of America in 1,095 Pages"
Just Released: New literary anthology co-edited by Professor Werner Sollors
September 30th, Noon-1:30, Thompson Room, Barker Center
Soledad O'Brien reports on a teen finding his roots through DNA testing. Featuring Professor Gates.
Interested in testing your DNA? Please refer to the following websites:
See the Fellows' Library for works contributed by previous classes.
Harvard Students: Our New Class of Fellows are Looking for Research Assistants. Postings Now Listed on the Student Employment Website!
THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT
Transition 101 has arrived, featuring poetry by Rita Dove, fiction by Petina Gappah, and an imaginative work by Miranda Pyne exploring the life of a polygamous African family living in Paris. An essay by Souleymane Bachir Diagne examines the history and meaning of human rights in Africa, while Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o critiques the notion of tribe so often invoked to explain strife on the continent. Paul Zeleza looks at the history and evolution of African studies since independence, and Rebecca Rosenberg reports from South Africa on the problem of crime and the burden it places on the healthcare system and on families. The issue also offers review essays on Mike Davis’s Planet of Slums and Pap Ndiaye’s La condition noire, in addition to a glimpse at a recent exhibit of Suesan Stovall’s thought-provoking works of collage.
The Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race
proudly presents
The Obama Issue
Elizabeth Alexander
Poetry Reading at Porter Square Books
Wednesday, July 15th, 7:00pm
Porter Square Shopping Center,
25 White Street, Cambridge
Rita Dove at the Harvard Book Store reading from Sonata Mulattica: Poems
Monday, June 1st, 7:00pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Film Screening
Scarred Justice:
The Orangeburg Massacre 1968
Tuesday, May 12th, 6:00pm
Thomspon Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St.
Watch Professor William Julius Wilson on ABC's Good Morning America
"Black and White Now: Revisiting an Experiment on Race"
Also available from ABC News: Part II and Part III in the Series
The Harvard Book Store Friday Forum Presents:
Michèle Lamont, Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies, Professor of Sociology and African and African American Studies, Harvard University
"How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment"
Friday, April 3rd, 3:00pm -- 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Discussion at the Harvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
March 19th, 2009, 7:00 PM
NEW YORK CITY — The sacrifices of 12 civil rights pioneers were immortalized on postage today during the NAACP’s annual meeting in New York City. …
… [Thurgood] Marshall [Jr.] was joined in dedicating the stamps by Medgar Evers’ widow and NAACP Chairman Emerita, Myrlie Evers-Williams, NAACP Board of Directors Chairman Julian Bond and Professor, Alphonse Fletcher University and Director, Du Bois Institute, Harvard University, Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., who is also a member of the Postmaster General’s Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee.
DVD and/or book orders placed on ShopPBS.org will begin shipping to customers on 3/24. The DVD will be in stores April 7th.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s new production for PBS, LOOKING FOR LINCOLN, premieres February 11th. His new Princeton University Press book Lincoln on Race and Slavery is available in stores now. On Monday, February 9th at 6PM, the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute & the Institute of Politics’ John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum feature a special presentation: Looking for Lincoln: In His Time and Ours - A Conversation on the Meaning of Abraham Lincoln. In addition, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has a new book just out, IN SEARCH OF OUR ROOTS: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past. See the videos, read the reviews, and visit websites - all below, followed by our spring events calender and other news.
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