Dr. Gates Among NEH Honorees at White House Dinner
WASHINGTON
Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., the director of Harvard
University’s W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research, was
among the nine honorees at the White House on November 5 to be
presented the National Endowment for the Humanities’ (NEH) 1998
National Humanities Medal.
President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton made
the presentations at a ceremony prior to a White House dinner in honor
of the recipients.
Others to receive the award were: author and biographer Stephen E.
Ambrose; Ragtime author E.L. Doctorow; Diana L. Eck, creator and
director of the Harvard-based Pluralism Project, which documents and
analyzes America’s religious diversity; Nancye Brown Gaj, founder and
president of MOTHERHEAD, a national family literacy program; Dr. Vartan
Gregorian, the former president of Brown University and the current
president of the Carnegie Corporation; university professor and author
Dr. Ramon Eduardo Ruiz; Pulitzer Prize-winning author Arthur M.
Schlesinger Jr.; and Garry Wills, syndicated columnist and essayist who
won the Pulitzer for Lincoln at Gettysburg.
“Their ideas and insights have touched untold millions of our
citizens and have shaped a clearer understanding of who we are as a
nation,” William R. Ferris, chairman of the NEH, said when announcing
the medalists.
Judgement Against Insurance Company Should Benefit Homeowners
RICHMOND, Va.
Late last month, a Richmond Circuit Court jury
issued a $100 million judgment against Nationwide Insurance for denying
homeowner policies to Blacks.
