Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Winning his party's nomination in 2000 will be considerably easier for Gore if he can lock up the African-American vote, which accounts for as much as a quarter of the Democratic-primary total. So he is courting the party's most loyal voters at every opportunity. At a time when there is little federal money to spread around, Gore has championed the Administration's empowerment-zone program, which pours millions of dollars into depressed areas like inner Detroit. During the fall campaign, he visited black churches on Sundays with a rousing sermon that an aide described as "very...
...miss the bits of political groundwork being laid here and there at last week's White House Community Empowerment Conference in Detroit. In between sessions, Gore sped from one photo opportunity to the next with the city's hugely popular black mayor, Dennis Archer. They toured the new African-American history museum, inspected operations at a corrugated-box plant owned by a former Pistons star, and chatted with ex-gang members operating heavy machinery on an assembly line in the city's most blighted area...
...diet worked equally well for whites and African Americans, says Dr. Thomas Vogt, an epidemiologist at the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research in Portland, Oregon, who helped coordinate the study known in the field as DASH--for Dietary Approaches to Stopping Hypertension...
...celebrations seemed almost too good to be true. It was as if they were both orchestrated by a higher power, namely Nike. Indeed, the two most compelling commercials on that ESPN telecast were Nike productions that ended with its trademark swoosh: "Thank you, Jackie Robinson," in which African-American ballplayers expressed their gratitude to Robinson, and "I am Tiger Woods," in which children of all races say that mantra before heading out to the golf course...
Last spring BSA held its first annual intercollegiate black students' conference, and earlier this semester the club held a conference on the future of affirmative action. Recently, BSA also held a conference on the African diaspora...