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Gates, a best-selling author and director of Harvard's W.E.B Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research, "is one of the nation's leading black intellectuals," Turner said. One of his current projects is the completion of Encarta Africana, an encyclopedia of black culture and history that will be published in CD-ROM form in mid-January and in book form next September...
Murphy's own magazine has published The Parents Answer Book: From Birth Through Age Five (Golden Books). It takes parents from the breast-vs.-bottle-feeding debate to toilet training to sleepovers. The 900-page Parents Answer Book is intended as an encyclopedia of child care, ready to be pulled down from the shelf in a moment of need...
Microsoft Encarta Africana, a multimedia encyclopedia of African and African-American culture and history edited by Professors Henry Louis Gates Jr. and K. Anthony Appiah, will be released in February, Microsoft announced July...
...encyclopedia, the culmination of a two-year partnership between Microsoft and a team of Afro-American studies scholars working under Gates and Appiah, who is a professor of Afro-American studies and philosophy. It will contain more than 3,000 articles as well as a number of maps, graphics, video clips and newspaper articles...
Gates said the encyclopedia fulfills his oft-expressed wish to compile the first encyclopedia African idea first advanced by W.E.B. DuBois, class...