News & Events

Little Fugitive

directed by Joanna Lipper

Film Screening and Q&A with Joanna Lipper
Brattle Theater
October 4, 2008, 5:30 P.M.
40 Brattle Street, Cambridge

Reception immediately following at the Du Bois Institute, 104 Mount Auburn Street, 3R, Cambridge.

For ticket information, please contact The Brattle Theater at 617.876.6837 or visit www.brattletheater.org.

Co-sponsored with The Brattle Theater and the Guidance Center

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• Professor Roland Fryer Receives $44 Million Grant
New Education R&D Lab Aims to Advance Innovations in Public Education

 
 
NEW YORK - A new education research and development institute at Harvard University will identify and advance strategies to improve student achievement in America's public schools, The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation announced today at the Clinton Global Initiative.
 
The goal of the Education Innovation Laboratory at Harvard University (EdLabs), funded in part by a $6 million grant from The Broad Foundation, is to foster innovation and objective measurement of the effectiveness of urban K-12 school district programs and practices through rigorous research. ...


EdLabs will be headed by Roland G. Fryer, Jr. who will serve as CEO and lead researcher.  A 30-year-old Harvard economics professor who is the youngest African-American to receive tenure at the prestigious university, Fryer has researched the issue of racial inequality for the past decade.  He has published papers on topics such as the racial achievement gap, the causes and consequences of distinctively black names and affirmative action.  Fryer was recently featured on CNN's series, "Black in America," and has been named by Fortune Magazine as one of America's "most influential minorities."

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• Gates Documentary Series Receives $12 Million in Funding

  
  Staff file photo Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard News Office

  Three new documentary series to be hosted and co-produced by Henry Louis "Skip" Gates for The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

  For more information please visit The Harvard University Gazette Online.

• 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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• NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE 2008 ANNUAL CONFERENCE - JULY 30, 2008 TO AUGUST 2, 2008

  Whitney M. Young, Jr. Awards Gala
  Saturday, August 2, 7:30 p.m.

  Legend Award
  This award is presented to individuals whose personal and professional accomplishments have earned them noteworthy distinction in their respective fields.

  Awardees:

  Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr., Ph.D.
  Educator, Scholar, Cultural Critic and Award Winning Author, Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University

  Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Ph.D.
  Award Winning Author Victor S. Thomas Professor of History & African and African American Studies Harvard University

  Nancy Wilson
  Legendary Song Stylist, Grammy Award Winner and Blues, Jazz and R&B Vocalist

  Governor Deval Patrick
  Massachusetts’ first African-American Chief Executive Officer

  For more information and videos of the event and award presentation, please visit the National Urban League's 2008 Conference site.
  A PDF of the event highlights is also available.

• The Moynihan Report Revisited: A conference co-sponsored by The American Academy of Political and Social Science, the Harvard University Sociology Department and W. E. B. Du Bois Institute on African and African American Research.

  
  “Moynihan Report Revisited” Conference podcast pages now available (February 2008):
  http://conference.aapss.org/podcasts.cfm/
  moynihan_conference_podcasts/his_report_and_his_times

• African American National Biography
  Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
  (Oxford | February 4, 2008 | $995.00 |ISBN: 978-0-19-516019-2)
  

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