Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...five years on one link and get nowhere," he says, "but when you get that one name, you may be able to take it back several generations in a single day." Margot Williams, 50, a minister of education for St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Bethesda, Md., is of African-American, Cherokee, Seminole and Saponi descent. During her first visits to the National Archives, she pored over an 1880 census to find some of her black ancestors. She was getting discouraged after 2 1/2 hours, until, she recalls, "lo and behold, I began to find family members. Once...
PARIS: You'd think France's World Cup soccer exploits would whip the country's right-wing nationalist politicians into a patriotic frenzy -- instead, it leaves Jean-Marie Le Pen and his ilk in an awkward position. Their problem: France's soccer heroes are mostly of African descent, and the anti-immigrant Le Pen doesn't consider them "real" Frenchmen. "In the past, Le Pen has complained about the predominance of black and Arab players and said it couldn't really be considered a French team," says TIME Paris bureau chief Tom Sancton. "But they're smart enough to know...
...effect on French attitudes of the success engineered by Zidane, Thuram, Henry and Desailly -- all of African origin -- has been palpable: "The soccer team has done more to promote racial tolerance in France, and pride and a sense of belonging among its immigrant population, than anything the government could ever have done," says Sancton. So whether or not they beat Brazil in Sunday's final, they've already trounced...
...sanctions policy against Libya is in trouble. "Egypt is America's best ally in the region, and if Mubarak is prepared to visit Ghadafi, then other countries are likely to follow suit," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "The U.S.'s ability to maintain sanctions is waning, because African countries are threatening to ignore them...
...abstractly worded ballad about two lovers flowing into each other and facing up to their deepest selves. "I think people are a lot smarter than they are credited for being," says Maxwell. "I like to challenge what some people think most people will accept and listen to, particularly African Americans and particularly in the R. and B. genre. To me, it's important to reflect the alternative...