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...Du Bois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr. said yesterday he will step down as chair of the African and African American Studies Department in 2006 after holding the position for 15 years...
...said he plans to continue teaching and will remain the director of the Harvard’s W. E. B. Du Bois Institute—which awards fellowships to promote scholarship in African and African American studies...
This last movie features Jody, a young murder victim, as the dead girl du jour. In the truly terrible “The Amityville Horror,” Jody is one member of the Defeo family, allegedly slaughtered in their sleep by their father (who claimed that voices from the house told him to kill his family). The young Lutz family moves into the home one year later, only to find that young Jody and other ghosts have not moved...
With more elusive personalities like cellist Jacqueline du Pr, whose career was cut short by multiple sclerosis in 1973, when she was 28, and Carlos Kleiber, the notoriously reclusive conductor who died last year, the interviews and documentaries that usually make up the bonus material on DVDs are scarce if not nonexistent. The producers are reduced to offering such extras as "photo galleries." No matter; the releases sell anyway. The performers' names and mystique are enough. Almost two decades after Du Pr's death in 1987, a DVD titled Jacqueline du Pr in Portraitis one of the best-selling offerings...
...principal reason Dawson came to Harvard was to work with Bobo, with whom he has collaborated on several academic projects related to contemporary African-American political behavior. The two are also co-editors of the Du Bois Review, a journal dedicated to social science research on race...