Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This year's MPP class is 8.3 percent African-American, 10.3 percent Latino and 12.2 percent Asian, according to figures provided by the admissions office...
...class is 12.5 percent African-American and 6.3 percent Latino. About 50 percent of the students are international, McCarthy said...
...inspector general. "It's quite a different face on the Los Angeles police department," says Edith Perez, president of the city's new police commission, a civilian body that oversees the 9,400-member department. Last Friday the city swore in a new police chief, Bernard Parks, an African-American veteran of the force who promised to "provide a better service to the citizens...
...mock haughtiness, "tan. Teasing tan, darling!" In old Hollywood, black was the color not of a skin tone but of a stop sign for gifted actors. So Dandridge's impact as a fiery siren in the 1954 Carmen Jones--she earned the first Oscar nomination for an African American in a leading role--allowed her and all blacks to hope Hollywood might finally find a place of honor for people of color. But like Marilyn, Dandridge doubted her talent, had bad luck with the men in her life, suffered a mid-career crisis and died early...
...Percentage of stories on poor people in TIME, Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report that were illustrated with photos of African Americans...