Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Connerly was appointed to a 12 year term as a state regent. He began to study admissions trends among blacks and Asian Americans, noting that between 1989 and 1995, the number of African Americans who applied to the state's top universities had not changed, whereas Asian Americans applied in record numbers...
Mansfield said that African Americans todayface two competing visions of racialreconciliation...
Thomas-Graham said she anticipates the book will especially appeal to women, as her protagonist is a fictional 30-year-old assistant professor, the only female African-American in Harvard's Economics department...
...undergraduates in attendance said they were excited to hear a presentation by a Harvard-educated African-American woman...
Countries that practice torture have little problem finding suppliers. Taiwan exports shock batons to Indonesia, Vietnam and Cambodia. German- and South African-made stun weapons have turned up in Angola and Egypt. Mexico is becoming a production and transshipment site for American and Asian stun devices. It has also begun attacking its own people with the weapons. Last September police turned fire hoses on 400 people protesting election fraud in Campeche. Members of the Cobras security force then waded in, jabbing protesters with 3-ft.-long shock sticks. "I fell to the ground, but they carried on giving...