Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...African-American student yield dipped from 71.2 to 64.7 percent. Out of 201 African-American admits, 130 have said they will enroll in the fall...
...They actually vary a great deal," Fitzsimmons said. "Asian-American students usually yield above the overall average, African-American yield tends to be the lowest...
...would just plug my ears because I can't stand stuff like that." Dylan rarely read his work aloud, she says, but Eric "was very talkative. He was a really good writer. He would help me cheat sometimes, pass me answers in tests and stuff." Though she is African American, she never sensed the racism that spilled out against Isaiah Shoels during the massacre. Maybe that day they were role playing again...
Through the Internet I was able to trace my Irish-African-American roots back to County Tipperary, Ireland, and I even found a cousin who now writes me from Ireland every week. I learned of a great-great-granduncle who was the child of a slave and fought in the Civil War. The African-American Genealogy Society is thrilled at all the information and stories its members collectively share. Putting all our pieces of paper in order has shown us the priceless wealth of knowledge we have in our possession--our ancestors--and we are wonderfully proud of our heritage...
W.E.B. DU BOIS The great African-American intellectual is the Person of the Century for me. Du Bois was the first black Ph.D. from Harvard; he was one of the founding fathers of the field of sociology. He helped establish the N.A.A.C.P. and edited its journal, The Crisis, for 24 years. He was an architect of the Harlem Renaissance and the civil rights movement, and throughout his life brilliantly fought against racial discrimination and for the full participation of blacks in American society. He conceived of the Encyclopedia Africana, a comprehensive history of the African diaspora. He was a staunch...