Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...black students from the Afro and the Pan-African Liberation Committee, two activist groups, took over Mass. Hall and demanded that the University divest from the Gulf Oil Corporation in protest of the company's practices in Angola. John, who was one of the protestors inside the building, says the takeover resulted from students' unsuccessful meetings with stockholders to discuss concerns...
...admission in 1970 marked one of the firstgreat waves of African-American students...
...influx of large numbers of African-Americanstudents sparked campus-wide controversy,including allegations of relaxed admissionsstandards for black students...
...college-educated black woman who had been homeless since developing a mental illness, after she reportedly lunged at them with a screwdriver. It is why the street-crimes unit in New York--four of whose members are charged with murder in the shooting of Amadou Diallo, an unarmed African street merchant--have stopped and frisked thousands of blacks and Hispanics for no reason except their color. It is why many law-abiding members of minority groups are convinced they have more to fear from cops like Volpe than they do from common criminals. Until the white majority makes it clear...
...African-American student at a placid Vermont college is getting anonymous hate notes. The college responds, predictably, with race-sensitivity forums. Rebecca Gilman's new play, having its world premiere at Chicago's Goodman Theatre, could have been an easy diatribe against racism and the perils of political correctness. Instead, it's a complex, unnerving look at the way real people navigate between them both. Mary Beth Fisher gives a penetrating performance as the dean whose life is unraveled by the case. Gilman sets the play entirely in the dean's office yet creates a more convincing world offstage than...