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...Bless America" message on a campus marquee, only to be roasted on the letters page of the local paper and likened to the Taliban. "Very few of us want to nitpick what is or isn't legal in this emotional moment," says Charles Haynes of the Freedom Forum First Amendment Center. "But over the next few months, these actions will be challenged...
...crowd the lecture attracted was invigorating. During the question-and-answer portion of the forum, West addressed the fact that he spent a great deal of the lecture making references to and hypothesizing about the tragic events of Sept. 11. He said that it would be “irresponsible” had the events been ignored and evaded completely. Other questions invoked his opinions on how to prevent hip-hop from becoming an irrelevant art form, or from letting it degenerate so as to cease being an art form altogether. Another gentleman posed a similar question...
...ARCO Forum lecture on Oct. 10, Fletcher University Professor Cornel West ’74, arguably one of the most electrifying figures in academia, illuminated the connections between recent events and hip-hop culture. As one of the most influential forms of black art, hip-hop can be surprisingly relevant to the sentiments of many Americans in light of current events. “A blues people [African-Americans] can teach Americans now that everybody has the blues,” said West, who argued that America is now experiencing what it feels like to be displaced...
This year’s Cambridge school committee candidates held a debate last night at the Cambridge Senior Center during a forum held by the Cambridge Town Meeting Association...
...members of terrorist groups like Hamas and Islamic Jihad voiced their concerns in a democratic government forum and engaged in debate with their opponents, they would no longer be terrorists. On that day, Israel would finally have a partner with whom to work out a lasting peace treaty...