Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ended with a half-finished panel concerned with the ever-pressing question, "When is a Latino an African?" I would actually love to know when a Latino is ever an African. I have no idea when that is ever the case. I would have been intrigued to hear Colescott's own perspective on the question, but, of course, he did not share...
...atrocities of the Congo mounted, the first major human rights initiative of this century was launched with Morel at the helm. Morel had a short but impressive list of predecessors in the movement to end the killings in the Congo, starting with George Washington Williams, the first African-American member of the Ohio state legislature (as well as a prominent minister, lawyer and journalist). In a letter written to the U.S. Secretary of State, Williams wrote that Leopold's Congo was "guilty of crimes against humanity," a full half-century before the same phrase was used in the Nuremberg trials...
...poll taken earlier this year found that over two-third of African-American male teenagers believe they will one day be professional basketball players. Considering the current state of the National Basketball Association (NBA), I guess it's lucky for them that they're horribly misguided...
...panel discussion held Tuesday night at the Arco Forum entitled, "Images and Coverage of African Americans in the Media," talk show host Montel Williams recounted the warnings of program managers that "a bald black man on TV" would not work in their cities...
Maybe those program managers never heard of a guy named Jordan. The black basketball player is the dominant image of African Americans in the media. And now that he is no longer playing basketball, perhaps some light can finally be shed on the age-old question of whether his dominance is good for black America...