Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There is no group more angered...on the Lewinsky scandal front than African Americans," he said, explaining that many inner city residents believe the president is the victim of a political witch-hunt...
...There were several documented instances of attempts by Republican county, local and state organizations to intimidate...African Americans and Latinos," Wyche alleged...
...herself or himself. Many of us are trying. But Latinos cannot just keep our eyes on the prize; we have to look down inward to our thirst for a political voice, around at the desert of the current political landscape, and across color lines to those in majority and African-American communities who can help end the drought...
Hollings' position could motivate Inglis' socially conservative base to get out and vote, but it could also bring pro-Clinton African Americans to the polls. In any case, the race is going right to the wire, and it won't be pretty. Hollings has already called his opponent a "goddamn skunk," a "rascal" and a "reptile." The courteous Inglis has turned the outbursts into an issue; he is planning to ride across highways 26 and 85 in his trademark bright-red R.V. on what he's calling the "Expect More Tour." But South Carolinians will have to decide whether expecting...
Like most African Americans, I have the legacy of slavery written all over my face. My brow, for example, resembles that of my father's father, who was born a slave in northern Florida. The sponsor's slogan for the powerful series Africans in America, which aired on PBS last week, rightly insisted that the story of slavery is not just African-American history but American history. But for blacks like me, it's also family history, a link to the oppressive past so intense and personal that it stares back whenever we look in a mirror...