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"People two years ago might have had questions about whether the department would continue to exist because of political upheavals coming out of the past," Nathan I. Huggins, Dubois Professor of History and Afro-American Studies and chairman of the Afro-Am department, said last week.
The W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research has received a $125,000 grant from the Ford Foundation to establish a lecture series on Afro-American life, history and culture.
The lectureship and Institute are named for the late sociologist William E. B. DuBois, a Black civil rights leader of the 20th century, who died in 1960 after joining the Communist party and renouncing his U.S. citizenship. DuBois earned a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1895 and helped found the National...
Huggins, who is also director of the Dubois Institute, was unavailable for comment yesterday.
Although Wright's Dubois position will give her the time she needs to complete her project, Kendall said his client had "mixed feelings" about the appointment. "It's the best of a bad situation," he added.