Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...September 18, 1998: South African President and co-recipient of the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize Nelson Mandela spoke in a special ceremony in front of 25,000 in Tercentenary Theatre. He became the third person in Harvard's history to receive an honorary degree in a ceremony not linked to Commencement or a celebration of a University anniversary. "To join George Washington and Winston Churchill as the other recipients of such an award conferred at a specially convened convocation...holds great symbolic significance," Mandela said. "The name of an African is now added to those illustrious leaders of the Western...
Although the College first opened its doors to African-American, Jewish and other minority students long before other Ivy League colleges, the embarrassment of race-based prejudices, both explicit and latent, forced the Office of Admissions to play catch-up in the 1970s along with the rest of America's predominantly white institutions...
...flyaway and skintight jumpsuit, Ride seemed as unlikely a candidate for equal rights crusader as Senator Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.). But just as Thurmond found the wherewithal this year to pat Nelson Mandela's back under a statue of Abraham Lincoln after calling the esteemed South African leader a terrorist thug a few years back, Ride surprised observers, especially those of us in elementary school at the time...
Jackson also denounced the "double standard" the U.S. invokes when dealing with humanitarian disasters in Europe and Africa--intervening in Western conflicts, but not those on other continents. He compared the refugee crisis in Sierra Leone, an African nation which has been embroiled in a civil war for several years, to the one in Kosovo...
Jackson also denounced the "double standard" the U.S. invokes when dealing with humanitarian disasters in Europe and Africa--intervening in Western conflicts, but not those on other continents. He compared the refugee crisis in Sierra Leone, an African nation which has been embroiled in a civil war for several years, to the one in Kosovo...