Word: activistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There's definitely an activist element to your personality. What issues strike you and make you angry...
Cornel R. West '74 is a man of his word. A devout believer in the academic as activist, he has taken his "variety of African ways of being" around the country...
West, who grew up in Sacramento, Calif., entered Harvard at 17 after attending all-Black public schools. While at the College, a place he says "equipped and empowered him to be a Black freedom fighter cutting against the grain," West began his career as an academic activist...
...found timely reason to honor such powerful figures as Martin Luther King Jr., Willy Brandt, Lech Walesa and Bishop Desmond Tutu. Few of those were more calculatedly controversial than this year's Nobel Peace laureate, Rigoberta Menchu. The award to the 33-year-old Guatemalan Indian-rights activist was announced in the week marking the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' arrival in the New World...
Rigoberta Menchu, 33, Guatemalan Indian-rights activist whose family was killed in her country's bloody civil war; from Mexico, where she fled in 1981, Menchu has fought against persecution by rightist forces of tens of thousands of Indians. She "stands out as a vivid symbol of peace and reconciliation across ethnic, cultural and social dividing lines," said the citation. (See related story on page...