College Board and the Du Bois Institute invite you to join us for a very special online event:
The Educational Experience of Young Men of Color Town Hall Meeting Live Webcast 
Monday, June 20, 2011
2:00-4:00 pm EDT
Note: Please mark your calendar and save the link below to participate in the live event on Monday
http://video2.harvard.edu/livevideo/college_board_event
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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
August 18th, 2011 Ticket Info |
Congratulations to all Graduates!
Special Congrats to Dara Johnson, winner of the 2011 Andrew Ramroop Prize |
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 Treasures from the Collections
of the Museum of African American History
On Exhibit until December 2011
Monday - Saturday
10 am - 4 pm
46 Joy Street, Boston, MA
maah.org
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El Anatsui:
When I Last Wrote to You about Africa
On Exhibit until June 26, 2011
The Davis Museum at Wellesley College
106 Central Street Wellesley, MA
davismuseum.wellesley.edu
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Walking Tours of Florence, Massachusetts
 www.davidrugglescenter.org
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Freedom Rising: Emancipation
and the 54th Massachusetts Regiment.
150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation
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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.
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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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| This Summer@the Institute |
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"African-American Struggles for Freedom and Civil Rights 1865-1965,"
This summer, the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute is pleased to welcome the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for College Teachers.
More information.
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 Lisa Thompson featured in the Atlanta Post:
Fear of the Blackface Minstrel
Also, watch video interview
on Left of Black |
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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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| Recent Events @ The Institute |
2011 Graduation Party
 May 25, 2011
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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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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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Editors: Lawrence D. Bobo and Michael C. Dawson
Book Review Editor: Tyrone Forman
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