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Please join us for our last few events this May as we close out a tremendous year, celebrate new graduates, and learn of great summer plans! Don't miss the last episode of the series Black in Latin America on PBS this Tuesday evening: "Mexico & Peru: The Black Grandma in the Closet." Take a moment to view the exquisite photography of Marc Halevi below - taken at the jam packed "Conversation with Elizabeth Catlett" last week. This month is your last chance to view the gallery show: DIGAME: Elizabeth Catlett's Forever Love. More details on all this and more below.
Regards,
Vera Ingrid Grant
Executive Director
Visit our website for information about our events, projects, and publications.
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| New: Horace Mann Bond Book Ceremony Coming in May 2011 |
| 2011 Graduation Party
Wednesday, May 25, 4:00 pm
Thompson Room, Barker Center
Sponsored with the Department of African and African American Studies
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Wendell Phillips Bicentennial Commemoration:
Social Justice Then and Now
June 2 - 4, 2011
Cambridge and Boston
Schedule of Events
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Annual Martha's Vineyard Event
Separate but Unequal: Closing the
Education Gap
A Panel Discussion Moderated by
Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Panelists include
James Comer
Angel Harris
Diane Ravitch
Michelle Rhee
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| Final Days to See the Exhibit! |
DIGAME: Elizabeth Catlett's Forever Love
On view through May 26, 2011
Neil L. and Angelica
Zander Ruenstine Gallery
Gallery Hours:
M-F 9:00AM - 5:00PM
104 Mount Auburn Street, 3R, Cambridge, MA 02138
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Now Showing at the Boston Museum of Science:
RACE: ARE WE SO DIFFERENT? On exhibit through Sunday, May 15. Free with general admission. |
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Freedom Rising: Emancipation
and the 54th Massachusetts Regiment.
150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation
 | | The 54th Massachusetts Regiment at Fort Wagner, Morris Island, South Carolina, July 18, 1863. Mural at the Recorder of Deeds building, District of Columbia, 1943. |
Coming in 2013
Harvard University's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice, the Houghton Library, and the Departments of African and African American Studies and American Civilization are joining with the National Park Service's Boston National Historical Park and Boston African American National Historic Site and with the Museum of African American History to celebrate the impact of the Proclamation and the recruitment of black soldiers in a hemispheric-wide context. Among the activities will be a keynote address by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Eric Foner.
To join in the celebration or for more information contact Donald Yacovone, Research Manager, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute. yacovone@fas.harvard.edu
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104 Mount Auburn Street, 3R, Cambridge MA 02138
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BLACK IN LATIN AMERICA
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s latest documentary concludes Tuesday, May 10th, on PBS
Watch full episodes, read about the series, find local listings, and more...
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Maria Hinojosa: One on One
with Professors Ilan Stavans and Henry Louis Gates
Watch the Interview |
 Omar Wasow on TheRoot.com:
"Evolving Images of Obama and Osama" |
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 "Illuminating the Serenissima: Books of the Republic of Venice"
now showing at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Organized by Anne-Marie Eze, Non-Resident Fellow
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Transition
Transition 105, forthcoming this spring, is teeming with thorny questions about being black in a global context. Even the "Black-Jewish Question," traditionally an American obsession, gains complexity when it involves a half-Kenyan president, Israel, or Igbo Jews celebrating Hanukkah in Abuja. Three writers explore three different intersections of the tribe and the people. But Jews-both black and white-are not the only ones who wander, and Transition follows several more journeys through the Diaspora in search of black meaning. A review of the new biography of Marcus Garvey, transatlantic hero, celebrates ties between Africa and the Americas, just as Bayo Holsey questions Wole Soyinka's reading of Africa's role in the slave trade. And amid these abstract tides of history, pushing back and forth, individuals are caught in small eddies: an African American anthropologist visits Brazil and has trouble getting back home; an American daughter of South African parents floats like a ghost between different cultures of death; a black writer can't quite find home in Harlem. With the idea of home in transition, at least all these ideas find a home in Transition.
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Transition is pleased to welcome Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw (University of Pennsylvania) as our new Visual Arts Editor. Visit the updated Transition website, where you can read free articles and learn more about image contributors. And keep an eye out for Transition's 50th Anniversary Issue forthcoming in Fall 2011.
Editors: Tommie Shelby, Glenda Carpio, Vincent Brown
Visual Arts Editor: Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw
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 Du Bois Review
Our Special Issue on Racial Inequality and Health is now available online and in mailboxes. Do you subscribe? In his book, The Philadelphia Negro, W. E. B. Du Bois (1899) bemoaned the "peculiar" attitude of indifference that America exhibited toward the human suffering reflected by the poor health of Blacks. The Spring 2011 issue of the Du Bois Review (8.1), guest edited by David T. Takeuchi (University of Washington) and David R. Williams (Harvard University), provides a state-of-the-art overview of contemporary racial health disparities research, featuring the work of more than sixty scholars in relevant fields. Look for an upcoming feature at the Harvard School of Public Health website about the article "Racial Disparities in Health: How Much Does Stress Really Matter?" by Michele J. Sternthal, Natalie Slopen, and David R. Williams.
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We're updating our DBR cover image for issue 8.2. Stay tuned for a sneak peek!
Editors: Lawrence D. Bobo and Michael C. Dawson
Book Review Editor: Tyrone Forman
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