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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...before the dust had settled on their placards, members of the activist group rallied outside of Holyoke arcade yesterday, saying they don't intend to give Harvard a break...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Living Wage Rally Draws Activist Groups | 7/23/1999 | See Source »

Here is the daughter of a black-power activist--a kid named for the prison riots. She grows up in Houston, goes to college in Chicago, and on a family trip across "the raw, evocative landscape" of Texas for Christmas dinner at Grandma's in 1997, she gets an inspiration for a story about two bodies turning up in a small Texas town. One is black, one white. Locke writes a fresh, clean drama about racial stereotypes and her belief that being black is easier in the South than in the North. It becomes her ticket to Sundance, and almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sundance Summer | 7/19/1999 | See Source »

...million dollars, nearly twice as much the rest of the sprawling Republican field combined, and there's not much left to go around. Arizona senator John McCain, who at least has the Senate floor to campaign from, is a distant second with $6.1 million. Liddy Dole and Christian activist Gary Bauer each have around $3.4 million; Dan Quayle is closer to $3 million. Pat Buchanan has raised $2.4 million, and Lamar Alexander is scraping by with $2.2 million and frantically downsizing his campaign just to last until Iowa. (Steve Forbes has raised $2.7 million, just to see if he could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign-Finance Reform vs. Big Bucks: How They'll Play in 2000 | 7/9/1999 | See Source »

...favor of the landowners: because most of the families have lived there legally for decades, the tribe fears that a battle to evict them will just stall the restoration. Last week local officials backed off, and environmentalists are fuming. "The tribe's stance boggles us," says a leading Miami activist. "You look at their big new casino out there, and you wonder if they're shills for developers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Last Stand | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

This time, sociopathic white supremacism was driving not a pickup in Texas but a light blue Ford in the Windy City. On Sunday night, Benjamin Nathaniel Smith, 21, an activist member of the anti-minority World Church of the Creator suspected in four drive-by shootings Friday, Saturday and Sunday in Illinois and Indiana, apparently killed himself after being chased by police. In his wake he left two people dead -- one former Northwestern basketball coach Ricky Byrdsong, who was black, the other a Korean-American shot down outside a church. The chain: shots fired at three black men Saturday afternoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Midwest Shooting Suspect Kills Himself | 7/4/1999 | See Source »

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