You can't be everywhere at once.

Sadly, the laws of physics preclude it. Yesterday, I meant to go to see Henry Louis Gates Jr. speak at Brown. But I missed it. I visited my grandmother (102 years old and still going strong!) instead. I certainly don't regret it, but it seems like it would have been a great lecture...

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

For those of you who don't know, Gates is the director of the Dubois Institute at Harvard University and is a well known African -American scholar and cultural critic. He recently released the Encyclopedia Africana, an Encyclopedia of all things African. It had been W.E.B. Dubois's dream to produce this encyclopedia, but he was never able to get enough funding. After 25 years of trying to get it published, Gates Jr. was able to finally publish and produce the encyclopedia with the help of Microsoft and Bill Gates (no relation).

Find out more about the Encyclopedia Africana Purchase Encyclopedia Africana at Amazon.com Read an article about Henry Louis Gates Jr. at Brown (Brown Daily Herald) Get Black News at Africana.com (Gateway to the Black World)