The Virginian Pilot, March 26th, 2000
National scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. is trying to open the cyberworld to minorities and the disenfranchised. Gates has been around the country on speaking tours touting a multimedia encyclopedia of Africans and people of African descent that he produced with Microsoft's Bill Gates and fellow scholar Kwame Anthony Appiah. Called Encarta Africana, it is a sweeping electronic compilation of African history and its diaspora and impact in the Americas, Asia, Europe and the Caribbean. (See the Web site at www.Africana.Com.) One of the primary reasons Gates undertook the endeavor was to document ...
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