50 Cent is everywhere. He’s on billboards, magazine covers, CDs, radio programs, television talk shows, and now he can be seen on the silver screen in “Get Rich Or Die Tryin’,” which is loosely based on his life story.

While in exile from Nigeria in 1995, Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka took haven at Harvard.

Skip Gates’ Behind the Color Line charts the professor’s trajectory across the American heartland in search of African-American economic, social and political status.