When Gates arrived at Harvard, headhunted from Duke, he found that there was only one professor tenured under Afro-American Studies: Werner M. Sollors. Gates’s predecessor, who he described as “the great historian Nathan Huggins,” had recently died. Neil L. Rudenstine, who had been named...
According to East Precinct and Seattle Fire radio updates, the two victims were in a car found with its back window blasted out at the scene near E Pike in an apparent road rage shooting. Police were looking for a shooter reportedly seen on foot near Broadway and Pine. Police say he was...
By the time this protest song appeared on Bruce Springsteen's 2014 album "High Hopes," it had already generated more than a decade's worth of controversy. Inspired by the police shooting of Amadou Diallo, the song debuted during a concert at Madison Square Garden in 2000. In response, the...
“Harvard is a lot better than getting shot at for a living. I love it here. No one’s shooting at me, and it’s a lot of fun.”