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Shelby agrees with this characterization of black solidarity as a political identity rather than an ethnic or cultural one. Exploring the historical foundations of black solidarity, Shelby urges readers to question the significance of this solidarity in the complex world of post-Civil Rights era America...
...Harvard can manage to get past the Blue Devils and their superb backcourt, it would need wins over a BU team that has embarrassed the Crimson twice in as many years and Lehigh to match the 1984-85 squad for the best start to a season in the modern era. “We’ve been looking forward to this season and we’ve taken it one game at a time,” Cusworth said. “Every game so far we’ve approached with the mentality that we have the ability...
...gaps” has its roots in the creationism debates that predate even the 1925 trial of Tennessee teacher John T. Scopes.“Intelligent design had its heyday in the 19th century when natural science was first introduced into colleges in the pre-Civil War era,” Edwards says. “The intelligent design movement now is just a variant on the creationism debates.”Edwards says a bizarre twist of fate caused an alliance between science and religion. He adds that when the natural sciences weren’t taught in American...
...daily strip. Peanuts' Charles Schulz is represented, as are the creator-artists of Popeye (E.C. Segar), Dick Tracy (Chester Gould) and Terry and the Pirates (Milton Caniff). From the '50s, the emphasis segues to comic books and graphic novels. With Mad, Harvey Kurtzman virtually invented what would become the era's dominant tone of irreverent self-reference. He inspired several of the artists, including R. Crumb, whose exemplarily twisted panels first appeared in Kurtzman's post-Mad magazine Help!, and Art Spiegelman, whose Pulitzer-prizewinning Maus in 1992 cued a lot of people in to a belated appreciation...
DIED. LINK WRAY, 76, the original thrashing guitarist whose pioneering use of the "power chord" on his 1958 instrumental hit Rumble inspired rockers from Pete Townshend to Neil Young; in Copenhagen. In an era of clean-cut performers, Wray shook up the music world with his distorted guitar and menacing persona, laying the foundation for punk, metal and beyond. In the 1990s, he enjoyed a resurgence when his music was featured in several films, including Pulp Fiction and Independence...