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The US academic and TV historian’s rejection of racial categories has drawn criticism from some but his sense of mischief and underlying belief in American decency remains undimmed

Two of Eric Berryman’s favorite things are drinking tea and telling stories, both of which were on the agenda on a recent rainy afternoon in the

KERRY JAMES Marshall has donated a portrait of award-winning filmmaker Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. to the University of Cambridge

World-renowned artist gifts painting to mark award of honorary degree for author’s outstanding achievements

In the opening pages of his new essay collection, Writers and Missionaries, Adam Shatz recalls a remark by John Berger that subtlety is a luxury of the privileged. “But I am not so sure,” Shatz writes. “It seems to me that subtlety and nuance are indispensable tools of criticism—not least for groups of people (so-called minorities, for example) who have been seen, and often vilified, as monoliths.”

Creative writing by OpenAI’s GPT-3 model, demonstrating poetry, dialogue, puns, literary parodies, and storytelling. Plus advice on effective GPT-3 prompt programming & avoiding common errors.

Dancer and choreographer Bill T. Jones and historian and professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. on contributing to—and preserving—the Black cultural tradition.

The new production is inspired by the Black American storytelling tradition of Toasts.

But none of them are music books

Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, has been conferred an honorary degree, Litt.D., from the University of Cambridge, his alma mater.