Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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HAND, Central Board, Coordinator, Big Brother; IM, Athletic Secretary; House Comm., Rep.; Baobab African Art History Project, Research Asst.; Ten Chi Kenpo Karate Club, Vice-President...
...have computers vs. 33% of whites), but the subsequent fire storm suggests there must have been plenty. According to Patricia Turner, whose book I Heard It Through the Grapevine is a definitive study of how information spreads in black America, this is the first time the Internet has electrified African Americans about a subject that most whites and the national news media are only dimly aware of. The "Black Telegraph"--as some African Americans call the informal word-of-mouth network they've used to keep in touch with one another since the days of slavery--has moved into cyberspace...
Asian-American and African-American first-years will have a little extra help adjusting to Harvard life, thanks to guidebooks being published this week and next fall by two student organizations...
...will contain information about black faculty members and student organizations and will also discuss the Department of Afro-American Studies and the program in African studies...
...solve a notorious, nine-year-old murder mystery in Scandinavia. In 1986, Swedish prime minister and anti-apartheid activist Olof Palme was shot in the back by an unknown gunman. Testifying Thursday in an attempt to mitigate his sentence on murder and robberies, Eugene De Kock said former South African spy Craig Williamson had led an operation to assassinate Palme. The murdered Swede had supported the African National Congress throughout the 1960s and 1970s and was one of the foremost supporters of the anti-apartheid sanctions campaign. Swedish authorities say they had privately suspected South African involvement in Palme...