Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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HAIR APPARENT It was heads up at last week's Proud Lady Beauty Show, a trade expo for African-American beauty products in Chicago. Inspired by the unique properties of black hair, stylists went to new heights. You know what they say: It's a curl thing...
...Sedaris, who co-created this leaden satire of after-school specials. Sedaris also stars as a 46-year-old who has returned to high school after 32 years as "a boozer, a user and a loser." Just what did the network find funny? The name of the school's African-American principal, Mr. Blackman? The catatonic geriatric behind the wheel of a car? Maybe Sedaris' single comic affectation, a grotesque overbite? Take Mom's advice: Avoid Strangers with Candy...
...resonated with me. Throughout Sara's writing, I never felt shut out of the story despite the fact that Sara writes about African-Americans, and I am a white woman," Fisher said...
...Racial profiling is a potent political issue, not only because of the charges of discrimination it raises, but also, according to TIME New York correspondent Elaine Rivera, "because the African-American community has been one of Bill Clinton's strongest supporters, as was particularly evidenced during his impeachment battle." In New Jersey, where two white state troopers last April fired 11 shots into a van carrying three African-Americans and a Hispanic, wounding three of the men, a section of the New Jersey Turnpike will be closed Saturday while forensic experts reenact the shooting. A state grand jury is investigating...
...ethnic groups. "For example," says Shannon, "it is well known that Nigerian crime gangs controlling the heroin trade tend to use U.S. black or Nigerian women as their couriers." The Custom Service does not want to give up the practice of profiling or its right to stop and search African-American women. "What it needs to do," says Shannon, "is to develop procedures that ensure civility and good reason to search in each case" instead of simply treating every African-American woman as a possible criminal...