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Old-school attitude?

Denied tenure at Harvard, Marcyliena Morgan leaves critics behind and takes her mission -- to ease hip-hop scholarship's transition into academia -- to Stanford

By Vanessa E. Jones
Globe Staff / December 21, 2004

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White boxes dot Marcyliena Morgan's office at Harvard's Department of African and African-American Studies. They subtly remind visitors that these are the last days at the school for Morgan and her academic superstar husband, sociology professor Lawrence Bobo. Their Back Bay house sold quickly, and the movers will arrive later this November day to pack the Run-DMC dolls, board games, ... (Full article: 2082 words)

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