• African American Lives 2 - Chris Rock
    October 8, 2008 (All day)
    featured
    Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Chris Rock from African American Lives 2

     

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  • Anthony Davis - Alain LeRoy Locke Lectures
    October 3, 2008 - 4:00pm
    Professor of Music, University of California, San Diego
    Anthony Davis
    Deconstructing Opera, Creating Opera in a Post-Colonial World
    Lecture 3: Referentiality: Memory and Subtext: The Resonance in Cultural Memory, Creating Time, Place, and Attitude

     

    Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge
    276
  • Anthony Davis - Alain LeRoy Locke Lectures
    October 2, 2008 - 4:00pm
    Professor of Music, University of California, San Diego
    Anthony Davis
    Deconstructing Opera, Creating Opera in a Post-Colonial World
    Lecture 2: The Trickster -- The Recurring Role of the Trickster, Dancing on the Cultural Divide, Playing with the Post-Modern, Retelling History

     

    Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge
    275
  • Anthony Davis - Alain LeRoy Locke Lectures
    October 1, 2008 - 5:00pm
    Professor of Music, University of California, San Diego
    Anthony Davis
    Deconstructing Opera, Creating Opera in a Post-Colonial World
    Lecture 1: Why Opera?  Opera as a Subversive Act, or the "Decolonization" of Art Music

     

    Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge
    274
  • Race [Still] Matters
    August 21, 2008 - 5:01pm
    Author of "New News Out of Africa: Uncovering the African Renaissance"
    Moderated by Charlayne Hunter-Gault
    Massachusetts Delegate Democratic National Convention
    Sara Aviel
    W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University
    Lawrence D. Bobo
    Author of Bibles, BET, and Barbershops: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought
    Melissa Harris-Lacewell
    Author of The Central Liberal Truth: How Politics Can Change a Culture and Save It From Itself
    Lawrence Harrison
    Author of "Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower"
    Deborah Gray White
    W. E. B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University presents its annual Martha's Vineyard Forum.
    Hosted by Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
    Editor-in-Chief, TheRoot.com, Director, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University

     

    Old Whaling Church, 89 Main Street, Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard
    298
  • Race [Still] Matters - Chapter 1
    August 21, 2008 - 5:00pm

    W. E. B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University presents its annual Martha's Vineyard Forum.

    Hosted by Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
    Editor-in-Chief, TheRoot.com, Director, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University

     

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  • Race Still Matters - Chapter 2
    August 21, 2008 - 12:11am

    W. E. B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University presents its annual Martha's Vineyard Forum Race [Still] Matters Hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Editor-in-Chief, TheRoot.com, Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute and Moderated by Veteran Journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault.

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  • Race Still Matters - Chapter 3
    August 21, 2008 - 12:10am

    W. E. B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University presents its annual Martha's Vineyard Forum Race [Still] Matters Hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Editor-in-Chief, TheRoot.com, Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute and Moderated by Veteran Journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault.

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  • Race Still Matters - Chapter 4
    August 21, 2008 - 12:09am

    W. E. B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University presents its annual Martha's Vineyard Forum Race [Still] Matters Hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Editor-in-Chief, TheRoot.com, Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute and Moderated by Veteran Journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault.

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  • Race Still Matters - Chapter 5
    August 21, 2008 - 12:08am

    W. E. B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University presents its annual Martha's Vineyard Forum Race [Still] Matters Hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Editor-in-Chief, TheRoot.com, Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute and Moderated by Veteran Journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault.

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