Word: activists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harris' message was both spiritual and activist...
...effort was coordinated by the Undergraduate Council committee on Faculty diversity, chaired by Anna M. Baldwin '00 and Kamil E. Redmond '00. Along with representatives on the council, members of the Black Students Association (BSA) and UNITE, a grassroots activist coalition, also solicited the president's support...
Duke University lifted a 1988 ban on grapes in the spring of 1993 but reintroduced the boycott after pressure from student activist groups...
...news that a doting grandfather would struggle for his family. What's surprising is that he discovered school vouchers--cash stipends that can be used to help pay private-school tuition--from a black community activist like Sorrell. For a long time, politically active African Americans and the Democratic Party that most of them belong to have looked upon vouchers as poison apples intended to kill off public education. Even programs financed by private donors are suspect, since those might persuade legislators that taxpayer-financed vouchers would be a good next step. But with inner-city schools in a state...
...vote Republican. They tend to like their public schools, which are generally well funded and supported by lots of parental involvement. A plan to use their tax dollars to send somebody else's kid to somebody else's academy doesn't get them very excited. But vouchers unite two activist segments of the G.O.P. that don't always get along: Christian conservatives who support church-affiliated schools and free-marketers who want to foster competition for the public system as a way to force improvements. What the G.O.P. is also discovering is that vouchers may attract lower-income African Americans...