Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When you look at the demographics, these children are overwhelmingly African-American males, so the school began with a commitment that children can excel in math and science," Graham says...
Structured around interdisciplinary, thematic units, the school's curriculum is centered around the study of particular groups of people, for example, those in African nations or on Caribbean islands...
...apply a strategy that ensures we cover the depth of the people," Graham says. "If we end up on African soil, we talk about everything--temperature, the equator, geography and the land...
...great and poignant pageant. This was the Rumble in the Jungle, the 1974 fight with George Foreman in Zaire. That country's dictator, Mobutu Sose Seko, had laid out $10 million of his country's puny resources to play host to the fight and a festival of African and Afro-American music. "We left Africa in shackles and fetters and chains," said promoter Don King in a spume of eloquence. "We are coming back in an aura of splendor and scintillating glory. The champions are here...
...actions of a few individuals in Crown Heights should not reflect on all African-Americans and ruin an alliance that has had fruitful results in advancing social justice in America...