Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...While the U.S. continues the hunt for the African embassy bombers, Madeleine Albright takes over as the public face of the Administration, making show-of-support stops in Dar es Salaam and Nairobi...
...biggest beneficiary of the African embassy bombings may be Eric Robert Rudolph, the North Carolina fugitive wanted for an Alabama abortion-clinic bombing. The FBI announced Thursday that it was scaling back the manhunt for him, in part because of the personnel requirements of the Africa investigation. The Rudolph task force will be cut from 200 agents to 80, and its headquarters will be moved from a temporary encampment to a local warehouse -- a good idea, since the fugitive recently laid in a six-month supply of food to his hide out in the craggy forests of Macon County...
...lived Frank's Place, this show aims high, taking up issues of race, politics and sexual orientation. The hero, played by Steven Williams, is a black Republican who owns a bar in a rundown but gentrifying neighborhood of Washington. His regular customers include a natty lobbyist, a prostitute, an African cab driver and, the only white, an aide to a decrepit Southern Senator. Pam Grier plays the smart, attractive head of a children's advocacy group. The show is worthy, but its ideas are obvious and it lacks what those coarse series do at least offer--humor, life, energy. Weighed...
...worked. Thomas "has done more to turn back the clock of racial progress than has perhaps any other African-American public official," says A. Leon Higginbotham Jr., a retired federal judge (who is more qualified for the high court than Thomas). Thomas has voted against minority set-aside programs in federal contracting, against creating majority-black congressional districts and even questioned the logic of Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 landmark ruling that struck down segregated schools. It's the substance of those judicial opinions that offends Thomas' critics--not his complexion...
...back and gone and back again." Ayo's restless spirit twice returns, once with enough violence to drive Grace from her family, and again during Lizzie's teenage years. This leads to convoluted identity politics, for the dead Grace also inhabits Lizzie's body. Soon, Lizzie is waking to African dust between her sheets, the rolling of a slave ship and her own blood seeping from torn flesh. Although Perry has clearly read her Toni Morrison, her insights into slavery are no more piercing than, say, Steven Spielberg's in Amistad. But to be fair, this debut novel...