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...included the Feb. 7 birthday of abolitionist Frederick Douglass and the Feb. 12 birthday of Abraham Lincoln. A half-century later, as Woodson’s invention gained popularity, the week evolved into a full month. But last December, Woodson’s brainchild weathered criticism from actor Morgan Freeman, who suggested that Black History Month should be abolished. “I don’t want a Black History Month. Black history is American history,” Freeman told CBS’ “60 Minutes...
...fitting that such a decisive weekend would include a visit from Penn and Princeton. The Tigers have broken the Crimson’s hearts on numerous occasions, including the double-overtime game at Jadwin in 2004, the Kyle Wente heave, and the misses by Elliott Prasse-Freeman ’03 and Sam Winter ’03. Until last season’s 61-57 win over Princeton, Harvard had lost its last four home games against Princeton by a combined 14 points. Then there’s Penn, the Ivy bully. Since the Crimson ran off two straight...
Ford's design team is stacked with talent and has only got stronger lately. Two highly regarded Brits, Peter Horbury and Martin Smith, are in charge of design for Ford's North American and European divisions, and last year Ford lured a hot hand from Chrysler, Freeman Thomas. At Chrysler, he sketched the initial concept for the 300 sedan, one of Chrysler's biggest hits in a decade. At Ford, Thomas has already won praise for a concept car, the Reflex, featuring solar panels, butterfly doors and internal insulation made of recycled Nike shoes. "Bill [Ford] has come...
...scant new light on the president’s thinking.But perhaps the most significant line of the speech did not appear anywhere in the president’s notes and went largely unnoticed in the ensuing uproar. It was his very first sentence.Summers began with a nod to Richard Freeman, the Ascherman professor of economics, who organized the conference: “I asked Richard, when he invited me to come here and speak, whether he wanted an institutional talk about Harvard’s policies toward diversity or whether he wanted some questions asked and some attempts at provocation?...
...Boondocks” began its life as a comic strip, and its animated counterpart shares a plot setup: Huey Freeman (voiced by “Ray” girl Regina Hall) is a 10-year-old who lives with his brother (also Hall) and grandfather in a largely-white suburb of Chicago. Huey is unhappy with that particular aspect of the situation, and is the series’ narrator and social commentator...