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Several professors who asked not to be named say that Harvard has tried on and off for years to lure Gates, to Harvard as a tenured professor, but they say those recruiting efforts have never resulted in a formal offer. Gates, a Cornell professor who holds appointments in the Africana Studies, Comparative Literature and English departments there, has written several books in recent years that have greatly expanded the reach of Afro-American literary criticism, scholars...
...Cornell is concerned about its relationship to schools like Harvard and Stanford," said co-author Gates, a professor of English and Africana studies and Cornell's only Black full professor. "We set our goals in relation to them," said Gates, who is also the chairman of Harvard's Visiting Committee on Afro-American Studies and a research associate at Harvard's Dubois Institute...
Racial incidents on campus within the past few years have included the vandalization of the Africana Studies and Research, and the disruption of Ujamaz, a predominantly Black living center on Campus, by a series of bomb threats, a broken window, and the theft of its sign...
...great elephant," Leonardo da Vinci wrote, "has by nature qualities which rarely occur among men: namely probity, prudence, and the sense of justice and of religious observance." Later zoologists in Africa have noticed more human traits in Loxodonta africana -long childhoods and close nuclear families, high intelligence and a habit of wrecking their environment and destroying their own food supply. The suicide ground of the retreating herds of African elephants has been, for the past quarter-century, the Tsavo National Park in Kenya, a place ringed by political (and thus, from the elephants' point of view, irrational) boundaries. This...
Soon afterwards, DuBois accepted the invitation of President Kwane Nkrumah of Ghana to settle in his country. DuBois was working on an Encyclopedia Africana when he died on August 28, 1963. Simultaneously thousands were gathering for the march on Washington, the culmination of the struggle for civil rights which DuBois had proposed some 50 years before...