Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Only two Monroe graduates had ever gone on to Harvard before, in 1952 and 1956, "back when the Bronx was all white," Ramos says. Today, the school's population is predominantly Puerto Rican, Dominican and African-American...
Posters of African-American luminaries like artist Paul Robeson and cancer researcher Shirley Ann Jackson now grace the building's walls to inspire youths...
Virginia Gold, a director of CCS programs and an employee at the Fuller House, says the house caters to "kids of the African diaspora." Payments for day care are adjusted according to financial need...
Correction to news flash: Stella isn't fantasy after all. Author McMillan, 44, single, renowned for griping raucously about no-account African-American men in her bestselling 1992 novel Waiting to Exhale, flew to Jamaica on vacation last June and fell in love with tall, golden-brown, bashful, 20-ish resort hotel employee Jonathan Plummer. They now live together, happily ever after, in McMillan's big house in Danville, California. "I don't anticipate us being together for the rest of my life," says the reflexively blunt author, "but right now it works and it's good...
...Exhale, which swept the nation's bedrooms, beaches, hair salons, reading groups and rush-hour subway trains, selling almost 700,000 hard copies in the process and 3 million more in paperback. Numbers like these would have drawn any publisher's attention, of course. The fact that an African-American author was writing about vivid characters with whom many black women could identify had the added effect of proving to booksellers that there is a sizable, previously ignored market for semisoapy black fiction--just as the $67 million gross for last year's film version of Exhale proved there...