Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...budding artist, and a cappella is hugely popular: there are presently nine different groups. One of Williams' special offerings is Independent Music Project (IMP), which allows student composers to create and perform works for the community. And just a few weeks ago, the campus learned that the popular African dance group Kusika, along with the Dance Company, will soon enjoy a new performance space...
...Williams' special offerings is Independent Music Project (IMP), which allows student composers to create and perform works for the community. Theater, too, can attract a good portion of the school. And just a few weeks ago, the location for the new Performing Arts Center was chosen: the popular African dance group Kusika, along with the Dance Company, will soon enjoy a new space...
...traditional Muslim robes, asks her fifth- and sixth-grade English class. Today's text is "The Twins and the Missing Math Paper," but the lesson is as much religion as English. "Whoever cheats," a young man reads carefully, "is not a good student of Islam." The students, about 95% African American, wear loose-fitting shirts and headdresses--skullcaps called kufis for the boys and scarves called khimars for the girls. Cleveland's Islamic School of Oasis is in many ways a typical Muslim day school, but with a twist. Tuition for more than half its students is paid by Cleveland...
...arrests. But confirmation of the practice came this week from none other than New Jersey -- one of the states where the accusations have been the strongest in the wake of an April 1998 incident in which two white state troopers fired 11 shots into a van carrying three African-Americans and one Hispanic. ?This is a systematic problem that everyone in the minority community believes is a well-established police practice,? says TIME correspondent Elaine Rivera. ?Finally, here is a major acknowledgment that race profiling isn?t just a complaint by a few people...
...state troopers were driven by blacks or Hispanics, was proclaimed by New Jersey governor Christine Whitman herself. While the visibility of the announcement -- Whitman is a rising star in national Republican politics and is running for the Senate in 2000 --will highlight the problem for many people, for most African-Americans, ?this will not come as a bombshell,? says TIME reporter Harriet Barovick. ?Many will remain skeptical that the mere revelation will bring any immediate changes.? Perhaps. But Governor Whitman has a record of acting decisively when she focuses on a major problem. And the Department of Justice...