Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Just as white people were a crucial part of the civil rights struggle of African Americans, just as men stood beside women to seek equality of the sexes, straight people are an integral part of the fight for gay rights," Sofen wrote...
...earn 1.85 percent on their "investment" in the current system, which is far below the five percent return offered by an investment in a balanced portfolio of government bonds and stocks. Moreover, some minorities earn negative returns in the current system. For example, due to their low life expectancy, African-American single males in their mid-20s should expect to get back less than 88 cents for every dollar of payroll taxes paid during their lifetime...
...scene outside of sophomore Boris Khentov's Lower East Side apartment building last week was picture perfect. During one of the first sunny spring afternoons New York has seen this year, a group of Orthodox Jewish girls were engrossed in a game of whiffle ball with a group of African American playmates...
...kind of corny," says Khentov proudly, "but my neighborhood is unique...There is total harmony, from Puerto Ricans to an expanding China town, as well as Orthodox Jews, African Americans...
Feeling comfortably safe to move aroundCambridge with ease takes time, but inner-citystudents can skip the learning curve. When askedabout his home, a working-class neighborhood whereIrish Catholic families live alongside Vietnamese,African American, Haitian and Cape Verdean ones,Austin's reply resounds with the sarcasm ofstreet-savvy, "Have you ever seen the eveningnews...