Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...concrete drainage culvert. Police marked a piece of flesh here, his dentures there, his keys somewhere else--75 red circles denoting body parts and belongings along a two-mile stretch of asphalt. Fingerprints were the only key to Byrd's identity. The night before, the 49-year-old African American, on the way home from a family reunion, had apparently hitched a ride on a truck with three white men. They drove him to a wooded area, where he was beaten, chained by his ankles to the pickup and dragged down the road for at least two miles, maybe three...
...there is a strange, nervous quiet too from much of Aiken's African-American community, which makes up 45% of the town. While prayer services in local black churches have been held for the cause, anxiety levels are higher now that the couple has become a driving force in the lawsuit against Westinghouse, charging that blacks, who constitute about 22% of the 11,500 employees, have systematically been denied promotions and been kept at the most hazardous jobs. Only 400 of the site's 2,500 minority employees have joined the Hightowers. "There...
Yeah, sure, responded skeptical African Americans, from U.S. Congressmen to manual laborers...
Earlier this year the House of Representatives passed a bill that would require the government to monitor race data on searches across the country. Representative John Conyers Jr. argued, "There are virtually no African-American males--including Congressmen, actors, athletes and office workers--who have not been stopped at one time or another for...driving while black...
Timothy Leary might've approved: South African military officers ordered scientists in the country's secret chemical warfare program to manufacture 2,000 pounds of the designer drug Ecstasy, a scientist told the country's Truth Commission today. Dr. Johan Koekemoer said he was told the drug would be used to incapacitate enemies of the apartheid regime. Even amid tales of government laboratories' producing poison-filled umbrellas and conducting bizarre experiments on the sperm count of baboons, the suggestion that apartheid's secret weapon was a party drug was hard to take seriously, according to TIME South Africa bureau chief...