Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prospect that it might crack open doors for other budding Native auteurs. "Right away, we've given the whole idea of Indian filmmakers credibility," he says, beaming at the notion that Smoke Signals could do for his people what Spike Lee's She's Gotta Have It did for African Americans. "Spike didn't necessarily get films made as much as he inspired filmmakers to believe in themselves. That's what's going to happen here. These 13-year-old Indian kids who've been going crazy with their camcorders will finally see the possibilities...
...some citizens were not persuaded by the protestations of harmony. "How deep does this river run?" asked Herman Wright, an African American and the manager of a local sawmill. The remarks by Sheriff Rowles were greeted with hoots. In Jasper, people still wonder about the suicide a few years back of a popular black high school football player who dated a white girl. People ask, though without evidence, Did he really hang himself, or was he lynched? And just two weeks ago, a white youth was beaten up by black teens...
Luckily for supporters of Nigerian democracy, Hafsat Abiola is no ordinary daughter. With delicate microbraids that frame her high cheekbones, she is strikingly beautiful--and almost painfully soft-spoken. But when the 23-year-old takes to stages around the U.S., she transforms herself into a firebrand for African democracy. In the past month alone, she's spoken at the Mobil shareholders' meeting, lectured to black church leaders and led a vigil in front of the White House--all with the aim of raising U.S. support for the Nigerian pro-democracy movement. She's even struggling to fund...
...become exhibit A for the American Civil Liberties Union and the NOW Legal and Educational Defense Fund, which are suing to repeal the law. This strange sorority of opponents also contends that the cap unfairly penalizes the 25,000 children born without benefits and has a disproportionate effect on African Americans...
Corporate diversity programs have nothing on the U.S. national soccer team that takes the field this week in the World Cup finals, La Coupe du Monde, being held in France. There are blacks, whites and Hispanics. One striker is South African, and the sweeper is from Germany. Better to talk to the left fullback in French; one midfielder is Dutch-born, another is from Uruguay and yet another from Yugoslavia. Throw in some California dudes, a couple of kids from Jersey, a farm-boy goaltender from Washington State and, bless us, a few sons of suburban soccer moms...