Word: activist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nothing that anybody asks me can ever surprise me anymore," she pronounces when asked about how she developed to become such an involved activist student (one of the founding members of RADWAC, an Education for Action member, Lyman Common Room coordinator and Queer Action Group participant...
While many studied for exams on Monday, community members and undergraduates gathered in remembrance of civil rights activist Martin Luther King...
Kathleen N. Cleaver, an assistant professor of law at Emory University and a renowned civil rights activist, spoke on her three experiences with Martin Luther King Jr. that changed her life--and the life of all blacks in America...
...Passion according to Kathleen Neal Cleaver, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. held a sort of Last Supper before his murder in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. Invited to dine at King's table were his "disciples," including Black Power activist Stokely Charmichael and several leaders of the Black Panther Party, including Cleaver herself. In a kitschy, if tongue-in-check scene, the prophet's mantle was passed from King to the apostolic Panthers, but instead of bread and wine, there were "hot peppers," the true food of revolutionaries...
...life composed of second acts bring off a grand finale? Sonny Bono did just that. His opera buffa culminated in a Palm Springs, Calif., funeral in a Roman Catholic church, attended by three wives, his gay-activist daughter, conservative G.O.P. hierarchs from Washington and stand-up eulogists getting laughs from leather-clad bikers listening in from the streets and a worldwide audience watching live on cable TV. Even when his life finally got suddenly and fatally out of control, his timing was impeccable. He died like a Kennedy, on skis, against a tree. And if that's funny...