Word: activistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...religion and politics were the preeminent themes in the American civil rights movement, a former student activist told an audience of about 40 at the Institute of Politics on Tuesday...
...embarrass African Americans by toppling yet another black icon -- as happened to Clarence Thomas, Michael Jackson and Mike Tyson. The saturation of TV coverage appalls many blacks. "It's suspect when all networks on television turn into Court TV," says the Rev. Al Sharpton, a New York political activist. The proliferation of black talking heads called upon to comment on racial aspects of the case is even seen by some as racist. "Why don't they use black experts to talk about the legality of mergers and acquisitions, or matters unrelated to race?" asks Philip Eure, a civil rights lawyer...
Johnson Aristide, a 25-year-old activist from Les Cayes, is no relation to the exiled President, but he is one of thousands living in marronage, or internal exile. While the world watches a flood of boat people go to sea, many more are on the run inside Haiti, hunted down for their political activities. Estimates of these fugitives range from 100,000 to 300,000 of Haiti's 7 million people. Marronage has its roots in the 17th century, when slaves in the French colony began escaping from plantations into the mountains. After the ouster of President Jean-Bertrand...
Unlike the others, Gerald Pierre was never a political activist. His only offense was to serve as the jury foreman in the case of Roger Lafontant, one of Haiti's most notorious Macoutes thugs. "I read the guilty verdict," he says, "and that is when my troubles began." A week after the 1991 coup, five men with machine guns came to his house and accused him of conspiring to condemn the now dead Lafontant. After two years' hiding in the countryside, he returned to organize a self-defense brigade in the capital. Soldiers encircled the slum and opened fire...
...Ralphs -- Kramden and Nader. The son of an autoworker, he has the persona of a bumbling working guy; he is blessed with brilliant comic timing, and his waistline is Gleasonesque. At the same time, Moore was once the editor of a left-wing magazine, and he considers himself an activist sniffing out the hypocrisies of corporate America. The comedian and the reformer lurk within Moore, and just as he did with Roger & Me, he winningly manages to express both these sides of himself on TV Nation, his satirical newsmagazine that debuts on NBC this week...