Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...school's decision to bring direct Protestant dogma into the public school system. Editorials rang out for protection of the First Amendment on the pages of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. However, reports Doug Cumming in The New Republic, from one quarter a conspicuous silence greeted the school's action: African Americans in the predominantly black suburb of DeKalb (the fastest growing black suburb in America) did not protest the motivational assembly...
This relationship is especially true for the African American community, that has been and continues to be mobilized through its churches for political activity. Among the most striking examples are the voting drives in the late '50s and the Civil Rights movement in the '60s and arguably through the early '70s, but the black church has been the locus for the political mobilization of African Americans since its inception...
...tutor in Claverly Hall for four years. I have witnessed students of other racial and ethnic backgrounds shouting, playing guitar, singing and carrying on in other forms on the steps of Claverly in much noisier fashion at much later times in the day and evening. Why do you think African-American male students were singled...
...Dean has not set up a discussion in Claverly Hall to help these young men, who in the words of Cornel West, new recognize that their ideas of themselves as Harvard students free to roam the University and Cambridge now "rests on puding." I wonder when the African-American men of Claverly Hall and their tutor will no longer have to wait. Most of all, I wonder when University Hall will practice what it preaches. ALVIN B. TILLERY, JR. March...
...recent new Coen Brothers' movie of course brings us to the question of the new national underground lingo necessary eventually to replace African-American dialects, in everything from gangsta to funk to run-of-the-mill infusions. Fargo gave us the possibility of Minnesotan, but the limited variation--a few maple-leaf reminscent phonetic twists and an assortment of pause formations--obviously means it won't pan out. '80s surfer lingo didn't last too long, nor can computerese. So, geeoun before the geeoun's through, and I think latinitata will res out. Nice...