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Harvard Du Bois Institute

The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard University is the nation's oldest research center dedicated to the study of the history, culture, and social institutions of Africans and African Americans. Founded in 1975, the Institute serves as the site for research projects, fellowships for emerging and established scholars, publications, conferences, and working groups. Named after the first African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard (1895), the Du Bois Institute also sponsors four major lecture series each year and serves as the co-sponsor for numerous public conferences, lectures, readings, and forums.break

http://dubois.fas.harvard.edu/

  • Abolitionism and Human Rights in the U.S.

    Fri, Mar 7, 2003
    Political activist Angela Davis talks about abolitionism and human rights in the United States.
    Forum Network
    Civil Rights Movement Series
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    Harvard Du Bois Institute

  • Encarta Africana: From Du Bois to John Coltrane

    Thu, Feb 13, 2003
    Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. discusses the comprehensive project, Encarta Africana.
    Forum Network
    Partner:
    Harvard Du Bois Institute

  • News Out of Africa: New Nations Out of Old

    Tue, May 13, 2003
    Charlayne Hunter-Gualt discusses the current state of Africa. **Charlayne Hunter-Gualt** is best known as the former National Correspondent for PBS's MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, where she reported from 1978 to 1997, Hunter-Gault has been bureau chief of CNN International in Johannesburg, South Africa since 1998. Her first job in journalism began in 1963 as a "Talk of the Town" reporter for The New Yorker, and in 1968, she joined the staff of the New York Times as a metropolitan reporter. At The New Yorker and the Times, she specialized in urban affairs, with a focus on the African-American community. As a broadcast journalist, Hunter-Gault has continued to cover domestic urban issues and has also reported from Grenada, the Middle East, and South Africa. For her work on the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour 1986 series Apartheid's People, Hunter-Gault received one of journalism's highest honors, the George Foster Peabody Broadcast Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism. That year, she was also named Journalist of the Year by the National Association of Black Journalists. In addition, Hunter-Gault has won two National News and Documentary Emmys, the Sidney Hillman Award for her six-part series Out of Reach: People at the Bottom, and the American Women in Radio and Television Award, among others.
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    Partner:
    Harvard Du Bois Institute

  • Sidney Mintz on Haiti

    Wed, Apr 23, 2003
    Anthropologist Sidney Mintz discusses the so-called "black republic" of Haiti.
    Forum Network
    Partner:
    Harvard Du Bois Institute

  • Social Inclusion of Disenfranchised People

    Fri, Apr 30, 2004
    Benedita da Silva talks about how she has fought to prioritize racial, class, and gender issues within both Brazil's political institutions and the Workers' Party, and how she has opposed discrimination against women and blacks. Note: A translator is present in this lecture to translate from Portuguese to English.
    Forum Network
    Partner:
    Harvard Du Bois Institute

  • Living Black History: Preserving Malcolm X's Legacy

    Wed, Apr 21, 2004
    Manning Marable asks what happens to a movement when its most celebrated heroes, like Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. are transformed into commercial brands.
    Forum Network
    Partner:
    Harvard Du Bois Institute

  • Living Black History: The Revolution in Black Studies

    Thu, Apr 22, 2004
    Manning Marable describes how African American studies must evolve by the midpoint in this century if it is to be a legitimate and relevant project.
    Forum Network
    Partner:
    Harvard Du Bois Institute

  • Africa in the Soul: Salvaging Identity from Wreckage

    Wed, May 5, 2004
    Emmanuel N. Obiechina discusses the psychology of recovery after Africans left their continent, began to stabilize from their disorientation, and started to restore their identities through narrative.
    Forum Network
    Partner:
    Harvard Du Bois Institute

  • Africa in the Soul: Narrators and the Age of Enlightenment

    Thu, May 6, 2004
    Emmanuel N. Obiechina discusses African narrators in the Age of Enlightenment, in defense of the true integrity of the race.
    Forum Network
    Partner:
    Harvard Du Bois Institute

  • Age of Revolution: The Black American

    Mon, Nov 8, 2004
    Gary Nash discusses the black American.
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    Partner:
    Harvard Du Bois Institute
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