Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with the number of early applications from African-American and Mexican-American students jumping 27 and 23 percent respectively, it seems the personal touch has been persuasive...
...survey to be published by Black Enterprise magazine in January may bolster Kane's assertion. Harvard placed 28th in the magazine's listing of colleges where African Americans are likely to succeed, a list dominated by many historically black colleges. Only one other Ivy League school--Columbia--ranked higher than Harvard...
...says Denise, a former dean of students at a college-preparatory school in Los Angeles. Joined by Denise's husband John, Newton and Wood launched plans for an after-school program, to be based at the Kennett Middle School, whose population of 540 students (18% Hispanic, 7% African American, 2% Asian and remainder white) was a microcosm of the community itself...
...think that hate crimes against transgendered people have been generally ignored by the press," Baldwin said. "I felt that Rita Hester's murder was also given less attention because not only was she transgendered, she was also African-American and working class, and those biases also come into play...
...foundation and other groups have worked on making this a community one that the African-American students can feel proud of," he said...