Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid's (HRAAA) fight to force the University's divestment from its South African-related investments is far from over, but the activist group this week claimed a small victory against the administration...
Harvard's Black students, politicized since the death of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. through the African and Afro-American Association of Students (commonly called Afro), largely avoided the radical, anti-war political groups such as SDS, centering their activism on the issue of an Afro-American Studies Department...
According to a letter written by Peter L. Malkin '55, one of HAA's ten official nominees, HAA wants to insure that "dissident" candidates, including South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, are not elected to the 30-member alumni governing board. Malkin said he wrote the letter in response to strong campaigning for five independently nominated pro-divestment candidates...
...after a pro-divestment group, Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid (HRAAA), nominated Tutu and four others for the Board. For the last four years, HRAAA has nominated its own slate of candidates in an effort to force a vote on the University's remaining $168 million invested in South African related businesses...
...African-American family has been middle class since the 1700s and deeply involved in the fight for black equality. You brilliantly describe what it feels like to make $150,000 a year, pay high taxes and yet have a white woman in a supermarket line who assumes you are on welfare turn to her husband and say of the porterhouse steak in your basket, "Thanks to us, see what they can afford?" This piece should be required reading for every American...