The Associated Press:

Bowing to a "radical minority" that they said might embarrass the school, Howard University administrators postponed a lecture by a Pulitzer Prize-winning Jewish scholar.

David Brion Davis, a Sterling Professor of History at Yale University, was to have spoken at Howard on the uprising of slaves throughout Haiti in 1791. But concerns for Davis's safety led to the postponement, said Howard official Paul Logan.

Students did hear from Khalid Muhammad, a Nation of Islam member who had said that the persecution of blacks was "100 times worse than the Jewish holocaust." Muhammad, who has vilified Jews as "bloodsuckers" of the black community and called the pope a "no-good cracker," addressed a rally sponsored by a student group.

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