Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been reassured by the gracious welcome they generally receive from civilians. Completion of the bridge over the Sava, which enabled the first mass crossing of tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles into Bosnia, drew crowds of appreciative Croats, who marveled at the hardware, not to mention the exotic sight of African Americans. Amid laughing children, Specialist Dustin Graciak of the 3/325th Airborne Combat Team delightedly reported, "They're asking about our weapons and trying to speak English." Mtuzove Zeljko, 14, who picked up some English watching Hollywood movies, said, "I like the Americans. It's good peace is here. No more...
...consolidate our gains, so that long after I'm gone, my successors won't retreat." As for Kelly's burning-village imagery, Giuliani and Bratton dismiss such talk as sour grapes, pointing to the benefits of reduced crime being enjoyed by those hardest hit by it: Latinos and African Americans in the poorest parts of New York City. "The crime reduction has been across the board, in every neighborhood," says Bratton. That means four fewer people killed on the wealthy Upper East Side, but 51 fewer killed in war-torn East New York. The people who live there have noticed...
These days, there are enough African Americans on the air to make prime time more integrated than the average suburb, but the "colored on TV" instinct lingers on. It helps to explain why such a run-of-the-mill movie as Waiting to Exhale is a box-office hit. For many blacks, especially women, the film version of Terry McMillan's best-selling 1992 potboiler about lonely, frustrated black women and no-good men has become a catalyst for discussions about sisterhood and relations with the opposite sex. "It teaches you that you need to find peace within yourself...
After the HAA endorsed the proposal and passed it on to the Overseers, a letter from the Harvard Black Law Student Association (HBLSA), and supported by the African-American Student Union of the Harvard Business School and the Black Student Association (BSA), caused the proposition to be sent back to the drawing board...
...going to do anything as long as an important segment of the community is very uncomfortable with the idea," says Jack P. Reardon Jr. '60, executive director of the HAA. "And I think it's especially important that the African American community feel reasonable about this. If they don't, it's not going to go anywhere...