Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...According to MHASP co-director Michael S. Boyce '99, the low-income housing area was recently recognized by the Department of Housing and Urban Development as "one of the six worst projects in the nation." Boyce also notes that although the area, which draws its population largely from the African American, Puerto Rican and Dominican minority communities, underwent large-scale drug sweeps five years ago, at the time some residents alleged that sweep arrests were racially motivated...
...contrast between the MHASP Green Groupcoordinators and their younger counterparts isstriking. During the visit Wednesday, all GreenGroup counselors present happen to be white, allof the children African-American or Latino...
Aside from Western classical music, the syllabus also includes African drumming and Jewish folk songs, which "open more than one view-point, or hear-point," Goldberg says...
There was a slight error, which I do not think you will mind my calling attention to. It concerns my African name. I would like to spell it correctly...
...reason for its length is that every child takes the first name of all his male ancestors. Often following the first name is a descriptive word or two, telling about the character of the person, making a true African name somewhat like a story. MIRIAM MAKEBA New York City...