Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Steve Hoss, the drummer, delivered the surprise of the evening. Hoss had flown to Rochester earlier that day to teach and returned to Boston for the concert before traveling to Europe for another show. His passionate playing contained sounds reminiscent of the same African drumbeats that lead to the beginnings of jazz. Lonnie Plaxico on bass, who had lost his waist-length dreds for a shaved look, rounded off the quartet...
Roughly 50 senior black labor leaders, intellectuals and policy experts from Harvard and across the nation will convene beginning today for the African American can Labor Leaders' Economic Summit...
...booklet includes courses such as Social Analysis 28: "Culture, Illness, and Healing: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Medicine in Society," Economics 1435: "Economics of Health Care" and History 1912: "Health, Disease, and Ecology in African History...
...team is doubles are well established. At the top slot the team of Blake and Majmudar-who went 6-0 last year-will take the court. The second team will be Doran and Swart, a South African currently ranked second in his country's boy's 18s. Passarella and Clark will round out the doubles lineup...
...lawyer and first black Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary (Times Books; 459 pages; $27.50), reminds us that there is a difference between the hair-splitting legalisms that dominate the current headlines and the rule of law that changes history. Marshall never represented a bank. His clients were African Americans deprived of their fundamental rights as citizens. His great triumph, achieved in 1954, was the Supreme Court's ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, which struck down segregated schools...