Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clinton: It's not so much a new policy as an attempt to have a mechanism in place to deal with potential genocidal situations when they erupt. There may not be simple answers, but the African Crisis Response Initiative [an American-supported, African-led effort to enhance the African peacekeeping capacity] is a good example of what we're trying to do. One of the things we've never been able to get a consensus on is whether every nation might contribute to a permanent U.N. reaction force that could short-circuit genocides. Going back to 1992, that's something...
...development was largely the result of poverty, overpopulation and the lack of attention to children. She correctly foresaw racism as the nation's major challenge, conducted surveys that countered stereotypes regarding the black community and birth control, and established clinics in the rural South with the help of such African-American leaders as W.E.B. Du Bois and Mary McLeod Bethune...
...festival. The Eid prayers feature the largest congregations of the year and are a manifestation of the unity of believers. A common faith is an affirmative tie that engenders a moral community transcendent over ethnic, racial and economic differences. At Eid prayers is Boston one sees Arabs, South Asians, African-Americans, East Asians, Caucasian-Americans and Muslims from other ethnic backgrounds praying side by side and embracing one another. Both the Hajj and the Eid foster a sense of community based on common values and principles, the type of community that multicultural societies like ours...
Carine M. Williams '00 is a African-American studies and social anthropology concentrator in Leverett House. Her column appears on alternate Wednesdays...
Forty-seven out of 97 winners were women, and nine African-American and three Hispanic winners made up 12 percent of this year's Fellows, according to the foundation...