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Henry Louis Gates Jr.
(1950- )

Educator, scholar, literary critic, writer
http://www.galegroup.com/free_resour...io/gates_h.htm

What we're trying to do at Harvard is to create, well,
quite frankly, what I hope will be the greatest center
of intellection concerning persons of African descent
in the Old World and the New World.

Henry Louis Gates Jr. is one of the most prominent and
well-known academics in the United States today. He has
drawn the world's attention to Harvard's Afro-American
Studies program since he took over as its chair, and his
reputation has been solidly built on several fronts as
well. As a critic and editor, Gates contributed to
broadening the discourse on African American literature
with books like Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the
Racial Self (1987) and The Signifying Monkey: Towards a
Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism (1988), which
offer refreshing critical approaches that consider
cultural traditions in African American literature.
Gates has been instrumental in changing the literary
canon in U.S. education and bringing literary history to
light through the numerous critical texts and republished
works he has edited, as well as lost manuscripts he has
discovered. Beyond this, Gates has narrated a major PBS
documentary on Africa and co-edited a huge Pan-African
encyclopedia on CD-ROM for Microsoft. [...]
http://www.pbs.org/wonders/BehindSc/behind.htm
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The Signifying Monkey ...

[...] African Americans trace the origin of signifying
back to the African tale of the Signifying Monkey.
According to Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (head of Harvard's
African American Studies program), the Signifying Monkey
is a trickster figure of Yoruba mythology (Esu-Elegbara
in Nigeria and Legaba among the Fon in Dahomey), who
became Exu in Brazil, Echu-Elegua in Cuba, Papa Legba in
the pantheon of the loa of Vaudou in Haiti,
and Papa La Bas in the loa of Hoodoo in the
United States).

"In the narrative poems, the Signifying Monkey invariably
repeats to his friend, the Lion, some insult purportedly
generated by their mutual friend, the Elephant. The Lion,
indignant and outraged, demands an apology of the Elephant,
who refuses and then trounces the Lion. The Lion, realizing
that his mistake was to take the monkey literally, returns
to trounce the monkey."

"There are thousands of "toasts" of the Signifying Monkey,
Gates continues, "most of which commence with a variant
of the following formulaic lines:

"Monkey," said the Lion, Beat to his unbooted knees,
"You and your signifying children Better stay up in the
trees." Which is why today Monkey does his signifying
A-way-up out of the way. [...]
http://acunix.wheatonma.edu/rpearce/...ignifying.html

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For Immediate Release
February 12, 2004

Janet Jackson Satanic Sex Cult Conspiracy

"On February 1st, as an estimated 130 million unsuspecting
Americans tuned in, the Super Bowl half-time show was turned
into a perverted Pagan burlesque show. Janet Jackson's
X-Rated spectacle is being dismissed as a publicity stunt,
but the close examination of the facts reveals something
far more sinister.

http://www.staticusers.net/janet-jac...o-stills.shtml

"Super Bowl Sunday, February 1st, was also the traditional
Pagan/Satanic holiday of Candlemass or Imboloc. The rites
traditionally called for young women to parade around town
naked invoking the spirit of Pagan saint Brighid or Brigit
(pronounced BREE) in an effort to bring on lactation in
farm animals. Brigit was also revered as the goddess of
spring and represented by the sun. A close examination of
the footage shows a bare breasted Janet Jackson with a
strange sun ornament piercing her nipple, both clear
references to this Satanic Occult ceremony. The public
outcry seems to have largely missed the point. This act
was not just about SEX, it was about SATANISM." [...]
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&i...ass+or+Imboloc

WHOOPEE!!

Imboloc (February 2nd) pronounced "Im-bolk"
also called Candlemass, is the symbol of the
earliest days of spring. Imboloc means
"in the belly of the Mother," or Oimelc,
"milk of ewes". Seeds are to be planted.
This is a time when God is considered a youth,
becoming a man. Lighting of bonfires to
welcome back the sun marks the Sabbat.
http://earthspirits.org/articles/faqwicca.htm

William Edward Burghardt DuBois
(1868-1963)

Civil Rights Activist, National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People Founding Member An outstanding critic, editor,
scholar, author, and civil rights leader, W. E. B. Du Bois is
certainly among the most influential blacks of the twentieth
century. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts on February 23,
1868, Du Bois received a bachelor's degree from Fisk University
and went on to earn second bachelors, as well as a Ph.D., from
Harvard. He was for a time professor of Latin and Greek at
Wilberforce and the University of Pennsylvania, and also served
as a professor of economics and history at Atlanta University.
One of the founders of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909, Du Bois served as
that organization's director of publications and editor of Crisis
magazine until 1934. In 1944, he returned from Atlanta University
to become head of the NAACP's special research department, a post
he held until 1948. Dr. Du Bois emigrated to Africa in 1961, and
became editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia Africana, an enormous
publishing venture which had been planned by Kwame Nkrumah,
since then deposed as president of Ghana. Du Bois died in Ghana
on August 27, 1963, at the age of 95.
[...]
http://www.galegroup.com/free_resour...o/dubois_w.htm

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