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[RAS Korea] Father Charles Hunt: missionary-priest, RAS president, martyr

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Discussed in this essay: The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song, by Henry Louis Gates Jr. Penguin Press. 304 pages. $30. / PBS. Four hours. Henry Louis Gates Jr. belongs to the postwar generation that grew up during, and then helped to shape, a shift in black consciousness from a sense of alienation to one of affirmation. When Gates was a student in the late Sixties, HBCUs had long taught Negro history, but the writers of what is sometimes referred to as the first generation of Black Studies brought to campus a new recognition of Africa’s importance to black America, rooted ...

Toggle open close Intellectual property has been a key part of American exceptionalism—the unique commitment in our political and legal institutions to natural rights and the rule of law as secured by a government of limited powers.REF When the Framers authorized Congress to secure patents and copyrights in the United States Constitution, it was unprecedented. No country’s founding document had done this before. As other intellectual property rights—such as trademarks and trade secrets—evolved in the 19th century, they too were secured by the unique American approach to securing all p...

Toggle Sidebar All Souls College change Codrington Library name, but keep statue of slaveholder [Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] Amelia Wood (Cherwell) writes about attempts by All Souls College (Oxford, England) to acknowledge that Christopher Codrington’s wealth was derived as a product of enslaved people’s work in the Caribbean, while not removing his statue from the Codrington Library. The College’s Governing Body announced that there will be a name change for the library. A plaque at the library now reads “In memory of those who worked in sl...