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Despite several glitches--including delayedstarts and the unanticipated absence ofpoet-activist Sonia Sanchez on Saturday--Goff saidhe "looks forward to next year...

Author: By Ashley F. Waters, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Festival Honors Black Legacy, Talent | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

...group promises to work to create a dialogue between activist groups around the nation to achieve some unity of action. That is what the events in March are intended to foster...

Author: By Jie Li, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Teach-Ins Encourage Campus Activism | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

Such flash-point confrontations would be a rarity for Jordan. He was a lawyer, not a preacher or street activist, and after a risky period spent registering black voters across the South, he came to eschew marches and sit-ins in favor of working inside the system and raising money from white-owned corporations. In 1970 he became executive director of the United Negro College Fund; a year later, he was running the moderate, pro-business National Urban League. He got to know everyone who mattered in corporate America--white, black, whatever--and in politics as well. He played tennis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Crisis: The Master Fixer in a Fix | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

...more her mad-cow disease guests talked, the more troubled Oprah Winfrey became. Food-safety activist Howard Lyman warned that America's cattle industry was inviting a mad-cow outbreak by its practice of "rendering," or grinding up, cows and feeding them to other cows. "Now doesn't that concern you all a little bit, right here, hearing that?" she asked, eliciting a roar of approval from the audience. With that, Oprah uttered the now famous words: "It has just stopped me cold from eating another burger!" Then a representative of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association conceded that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Media: Trial of the Savory | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

...celebration will ultimately involve about 400 student performers, and will feature such luminaries as Professor of Afro-American Studies Cornel West '74, record producer and musician Delfeayo Marsalis, and poet-activist Sonia Sanchez...

Author: By Ashley F. Waters, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Weekend Fest to Promote Black Artistry | 1/30/1998 | See Source »

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