Word: activist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...speech at the Harvard Business School Career Alumni Conference yesterday, renowned international Black activist Randall Maurice Robinson emphasized the need for Black awareness of Contemporary Political issues...
Barbra Streisand has proved time and again in her career that she goes where she wants to. She has been virtually unstoppable as an actress singer, producer and political activist. And with last week's performance, Streisand proved that even fair Harvard is not exempt from getting "verklempt" at her presence. The Kennedy School Was star struck--in more than one sense of the word...
...frustration felt by residents perhaps was epitomized best by the 1970 demonstration at Harvard's commencement by Riverside activist and former City Councillor Saundra Graham...
...patronage of unprofitable arts and cultural activities tilted in the 1960s away from private donors toward an increasingly activist Federal Government. The results of the 1994 elections ensure that the cultural debate of 1995 will center on reversing that trend. House Speaker Newt Gingrich and the new Republican majorities in Congress are determined to chop off funding to the National Endowment for the Arts, which last year distributed $146 million to 3,800 organizations and individuals, and to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which in 1994 meted out $285.6 million to the Public Broadcasting System and its 345 member stations...
...been declared dangerous for use in homes and in some kinds of agriculture, farmers continue to irrigate their fields with it. ``We've warned them, but they say they will be dying of starvation while we continue to worry about the ducks,'' says Roberto Avina Carlin, a local environmental activist...