Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...revelations were stunning enough last week when South Africa's former chief of police admitted to his role in two notorious acts of sabotage. First, General Johan van der Merwe confessed to giving orders in 1988 to blow up the Johannesburg headquarters of the South African Council of Churches, a blast that injured 23 people. He also admitted that he ordered his men to infiltrate a ring of antiapartheid activists and provide them with booby-trapped hand grenades, which exploded as soon as the pins were pulled. But then Van der Merwe offered an even more startling disclosure, turning...
...AFRICAN AMERICANS who must suffer discrimination in silence have higher blood pressure than those who can afford to challenge racist treatment. The finding may explain why blacks as a group have such high rates of stroke, heart disease and kidney failure...
...black figures, from George Washington Carver to Nat King Cole to Jesse Owens, but it is perhaps best remembered for Selma and Birmingham and some of the most violent civil-rights skirmishes of the 20th century. Much has changed since the turbulent Sixties, but there is still only one African American from Alabama in Congress. Despite a Democratic surge during the Wallace era, voters in the Camellia State still lean toward the g.o.p. as space-age communities like Huntsville grow and heavy industry, attracted by the state's red, iron-filled soil, declines...
Lewis has been less adept in handling the issue of the company's racial identity. Beatrice had topped Black Enterprise magazine's list of African American-owned businesses every year. But Lewis set off a howl in the black community when she completely dropped financial contributions to more than 50 charitable foundations and organizations that her husband had supported, including the N.A.A.C.P., the Abyssinian Baptist Church, the Boys Choir of Harlem, the Urban League and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Only a last-minute call from the Rev. Jesse Jackson's wife Jackie spared Jackson's "rainbow coalition." Lewis...
...election were held in 1796, the polls would tell a far different tale. Until well into the 19th century, only white males could vote; in that situation, Bill Clinton would not be the odds-on favorite. He leads Dole 59% to 28% among women and 86% to 4% among African Americans. But if only 18th century-eligible electors could vote, the election would be too close to call...