Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard's campus, the four-year-old organization has recruited volunteers from the ranks of the Black Student Association, the Black Men's Forum and the Graduate School of Education's African, Latino, and Native American group (ALANA), said Raphaela Diaz, assistant volunteer coordinator...
...program will be modified this year to include three extra hours of tutoring time each week. That extra time will be devoted to instruction in African culture, led by groups such as The Art of Black Dance and Music, the Institute of Boston Art and Arts in Progress, said Earl Martin Phalen, founder and chief executive officer of BELL...
...purpose is to let the world know that there are human rights violations which affect the health of Africans," said Dr. Edmund N. Delle, a conference participant and president of the African commission of health and human rights promoters in Ghana...
Replying to concerns that such a monument would "open a floodgate" of requests from other ethnic groups for similar monuments, O'Connor cited monuments of African Americans, Polish Americans and Italian Americans, asking the Commission, "Aren't you drawing the line with the memorial, Mayor Sheila Doyle Russell insisted the Common has always been "a place where all are equal, all are welcome, and all are recognized and remembered as contributors to our community's collective heritage...
...major discrepancy, though, between the image of the OFA as an overarching bureaucratic entity and the reality of it as a fine public relations organization lies in the provision of performance space. The Kuumba Singers, a group dedicated to the presentation of works in the African-American musical tradition, cannot secure rehearsal space anywhere in the University. According to a senior member of that group, the room in Sever Hall which it made use of last year has been assigned to the extension school and the other spaces which the OFA can make available are either too small or give...