Harvard Du Bois Institute

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Mental Health Awareness in the Black Community I
Terrie Williams
March 22, 2006
01:59:35
Inform Your Mind, Fuel Your Spirit is a panel discussion about mental health awareness in the black community moderated by Terrie Williams author of A Plentiful Harvest: Creating Balance and Harmony Through the Seven Living Virtues.
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Sidney Mintz on Haiti
Sidney Mintz
April 23, 2003
01:20:29
Anthropologist Sidney Mintz discusses the so-called "black republic" of Haiti.
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Sidney Mintz on Jamaica
Sidney Mintz
April 22, 2003
01:10:30
Anthropologist Sidney Mintz discusses the history of Jamaica, as the first lecture in a three-part series on the islands of the Caribbean.
Encarta Africana: From Du Bois to John Coltrane
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
February 13, 2003
01:21:42
Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. discusses the comprehensive project, Encarta Africana.
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Black Writers: Wole Soyinka
Wole Soyinka
April 21, 2003
01:19:19
Wole Soyinka reads from his book Samarkand & Other Markets I Have Known. In 1986, Soyinka became the first African to be awarded the Nobel Prize in literature. In plays, novels, and poems, he has chronicled the political turmoil of his native Nigeria.
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Black Writers: Rita Dove and John Wideman
Rita Dove
March 5, 2003
01:33:40
Authors Rita Dove, On the Bus with Rosa Parks (1999), Through the Ivory Gate (1992), and John Wideman, Sent for You Yesterday , Philadelphia Fire, read from their work.
Beyond Mortal Vision: Harriet Wilson
P. Gabrielle Foreman
March 18, 2005
01:20:29
P. Gabrielle Foreman, associate professor of English and American studies at Occidental College; and Reginald H.
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Black Writers: Elizabeth Alexander and Suzan-Lori Parks
Elizabeth Alexander
March 12, 2003
01:31:03
Authors Elizabeth Alexander, Antebellum Dream Book, and Suzan-Lori Parks The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, read from their work.