CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 28 (UPI) -- Ex-U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell says Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. could have defused the incident that led to his arrest.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 24 (UPI) -- Recordings made during the arrest of black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. in Cambridge, Mass., may be made public after being reviewed, police say.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 21 (UPI) -- Henry Louis Gates Jr. demanded an apology Tuesday from police who arrested the African-American scholar as he tried to get into his Cambridge, Mass., home.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 20 (UPI) -- A prominent black Harvard professor is facing disorderly conduct charges after his arrest while trying to get into his own home in Cambridge, Mass., police say.
DURHAM, N.C., March 25 (UPI) -- John Hope Franklin, who grew up in the era of U.S. segregation and became the foremost historian of African-Americans, died Wednesday at 94 in North Carolina.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 15 (UPI) -- A Harvard University professor has started a company that uses customer's DNA to trace their ancestry.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 6 (UPI) -- Harvard has reportedly launched an internal investigation into the conduct of an economics professor who allegedly defrauded the U.S. government.
MADISON, Wis., Jan. 24 (UPI) -- African-American literature scholar, Nellie Y. McKay, who co-edited the "Norton Anthology of African American Literature," has died in Madison, Wis. McKay was chairwoman of the Afro-American studies department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and s
LOS ANGELES, July 19 (UPI) -- PBS, the U.S. public television network, has announced the production of a four-hour documentary called "African-American Lives."
BOSTON, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- A historian said Sunday Harvard University was friendly with Nazi Germany after Americans became aware of the regime's crimes in the 1930s.
