Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...strength of the Boston Jewish Film Festival--the example set for other ethnic groups in the redefinition of "community." Community is a term quite liberally flung around, and in terms of multiculturalism, it often appears that community is composed solely of people of that ethnicity. If you aren't African-American or Italian or Jewish, you can't possibly understand the needs and intricacies of a particular group, so you might as well not even try--this is the self-defeating implication of the current exclusion of other groups from an ethnic community. At the festival, however, it didn...
...rode back to Harvard on the T, not feeling as though I'd been a "Jew for a day." Rather, I felt that I, as an Italian and African-American Catholic, had been included in the Jewish community, not ephemerally, but permanently--not in spite of my own background, but because of it. Cultural isolation is often defended with the cliche that there is "safety in numbers." Perhaps the Boston Jewish Film Festival demonstrated that those numbers need not be limited to a certain ethnic group, and as we being to call ourselves members of a plurality of cultures, perhaps...
Twelve days before the polls opened, Human Rights Watch and The Sentencing Project announced that 3.9 million adults, including 1.4 million African-Americans, would be legally denied the right to vote Nov. 3. Their report, entitled "Losing the Vote," identified the last group of mentally competent adults to be denied the vote in the United States: those who have been convicted of a felony. Forty-six states and the District of Columbia have felony disenfranchisement laws which restrict offenders' voting rights. In 10 of these states, that disenfranchisement is permanent. A plea bargain for a first-time felony offense...
Most worrisome is the disproportionate impact of these laws on minorities: 13 percent of African American men were prohibiting from voting Nov. 3, and in Alabama and Florida, where ex-offenders lose the right to vote for life, one-third of black men are disenfranchised...
...getting veklempt. I'll give you a topic. Sweet Honey in the Rock is neither a food product nor a rock band. Discuss. Actually, its an all-female African American quintet that performs music with black church roots, like spirituals, hymns, gospel, jazz and blues. Check out their 25th Anniversary Concert Tour tonight. 8 p.m., Symphony Hall, 301 Mass. Ave., Boston, 266-1200. Tickets...