Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although the movie is purported to be a cross between "Steel Magnolias" and "The Women of Brewster Place," it comes closer to an African-American version of "thirtysomething" with the main message glaringly obvious: "Every woman needs...
...others around the country, NOW members did some serious soul searching after the Simpson trial. "I personally thought that domestic violence was more of an issue in the Simpson trial," says Kathy Conroy, an Oregon board member who voted in favor of censuring Bruce. "But then I listened to African-American people being interviewed after the verdict, and I realized that we had overlooked injustice to people of color." NOW's national resolution decrees that "NOW commits itself to intense internal examination of its own residual racism.'' But it is a controversial plank. "This is just some black leaders...
...time he joined what was to become known as the Dream Team, Cochran, 58, had already won some $45 million in damages and an impressive rate of acquittal for minority clients by exposing corruption, prejudice and incompetence in law enforcement. The unofficial motto of his 10-lawyer African-American law firm is taken from Martin Luther King Jr.: "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." Jurors did not require too much coaching from Cochran to believe that Simpson may have been a victim of the Los Angeles Police Department; all they had to do was replay in their minds...
...AFRICAN PYGMY HEDGEHOGS First, despite the porcine last syllable, they won't outgrow the confines of your apartment like those Vietnamese potbellied pigs. You can keep them in that old aquarium. Their teeth are too small to break the skin. They do have quills, but these stick out only when they sense danger. Even that's kinda cool, a living Transformer...
...REAL HOT ZONE In a grisly coincidence, last spring's plague movie Outbreak, about an Ebola-like virus hitting a California town, was echoed by a real-life outbreak of the dread virus in Zaire. Dormant for 16 years, the disease swept through the Central African country, causing gruesome hemorrhagic fevers and killing at least 244 people (many of them health-care workers) before going underground again. At year's end, Ebola resurfaced in western Africa, this time in the Ivory Coast and possibly Liberia...