Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with joy that we watched as Harvard honored President Nelson Mandela and the new democratic regime elected by all the people of South Africa. Our joy is for the South African people who have removed their oppressors from power, dismantled apartheid and begun rebuilding their country without violence in the spirit of truth and reconciliation...
...same time we cannot forget that, despite widespread student protests and organized alumni activity, Harvard for decades resisted African National Congress calls for divestment of its endowed portfolio from the apartheid regime...
...jumping on the bandwagon of Mandela's worldwide fame and political success, attempting to obliterate that shameful history. It is both telling and amusing that the University Gazette (Sept. 24) managed to prepare a 28-paragraph front-page story without ever mentioning the protracted controversy over Harvard's South African investments and the stand of Harvard's governing boards throughout Mr. Mandela's long years in prison...
...ended up as freedmen within 25 miles of one another near the town of Chillicothe, Ohio. The brothers were quite fair, being only an eighth black, and Jeffersonian in appearance: tall with reddish hair and gray eyes. But Thomas would become a leader in the black community, founding an African Methodist church. Madison put down roots near a mulatto settlement and also stayed in the black community. "Though we consider it a gift of God, our one enduring question is why Madison chose to stay black when it might have been easier to live as white," asks his descendant, Shay...
...Hemings children, Beverly and Harriet) did is well known among blacks, most of whom have stories of light-skinned relatives who pretended to be white in order to fare better in society. "It's a way of getting away from the stigma and the suffering," explains New York University African studies professor Tricia Rose. Some urban blacks were able to straddle the fence, black at home and white at work. "You would have neighbors," says Golden. "But when you saw them downtown at the job, you knew not to speak to them." But for many, like Eston, it has been...