Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Tears were the first bond. They glistened on Judith Jamison's face as she stood beside an elderly woman veteran of South Africa's liberation struggle. They trickled down the cheek of a younger South African woman who knelt beside the flower-strewn memorial to her brother, felled by a police bullet on June 16, 1976, the first day of the Soweto uprising. After lighting candles, the kneeling woman and three other family members softly intoned their new national anthem, God Bless Africa. "That's when I lost it," Jamison said later. "I identified with them as black people...
...first time that the Ailey company, the pre-eminent African-American dance troupe in the U.S., has visited the African nation, long deprived of access to international artists by the cultural boycott of the old apartheid regime. South African officials hailed the visit as a major event. "This is the end of a long drought," said Johannesburg executive-committee chairman M.C. Matjila after the premiere performance Thursday night in the city's Civic Theater. "We are back in the international arena and able to host world-famous theater groups like this. It gives us pride after what we fought...
...racism in the workplace, like everything else, is primarily an issue of dollars and cents--as in the case of the $176 million that Texaco will pay out to settle a class-action discrimination claim, or the $500 million being demanded from Bell Atlantic in a suit filed by African-American employees last month. Their complaint, which so far incorporates the charges of 126 workers, runs the entire gamut of possible racial bias on the job, from the crudest slurs--an insulting "Nigger Application for Employment" was left on a copier--to more subtle forms of discrimination. Daniel Clark...
...these have not alleviated all racial strains in the workplace. Even at a place like NYNEX--consistently ranked among the "best companies" for minorities--the message of racial equality "comes down strongly from the top but somehow gets lost somewhere in the middle," according to Desiree Williams, an African-American customer-service rep. Though NYNEX made minority rights a priority after prodding from the Federal Government in 1972, employees like Williams believe the "process seems to have stalled...
Sitting at a sun-drenched sidewalk table outside the Cezanne Cafe, Idi, a 25-year-old short-order cook of North African origin, talks about the change that has come over Vitrolles. "There are fewer young people in the streets. We're afraid to go out at night. The cops have become cowboys." Nadia Salsedo, 55, a Tunisian-born immigrant, lost her job as a city hall secretary after the Front took over. "When the cops go after someone," she says, "it's the dark-skinned kids, not the blonds...