Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...subsequent odyssey failed to find Ocalan a haven, and on Feb. 2, he headed to Nairobi. "The understanding was that Kenya was just a temporary solution of two or three days," says Failos Kranidiotis, the guerrilla's Greek lawyer. After that, Ocalan was expected to move permanently to another African state. According to Kenyan officials, his unmarked jet landed in Nairobi at 11:33 p.m. Kenyan authorities say Greek Ambassador George Costoulas met the plane and whisked its passengers past immigration controls...
Nevertheless, the value of Black History Month is considerable. The name itself is revealing: not African-American History Month, but Black History Month; not an identity rooted in African culture, but in a distinctly American experience. However superficially, such a name suggests that any racial differences, and all racism, runs only skin deep. Indeed, this is the promise of Black History Month: for all its silly therapeutic excess, it promotes a black pride consonant with that of the larger American community within which, for better or worse, black Americans must live and contribute as citizens...
...black or African-American citizens, mind you, but simply as American citizens...
...tried to go after the graduate school crowd, but with only marginal success. In 1993, he made the propitious decision to transform the third floor into a dance club. He booked D.J. Tim Mann and hoped for the best. What he got was hordes of hip-hop-loving African Americans who, for the past nine years, have kept coming back. Paul laughs, "They never take a break. They're here every weekend, the same people. They come from as far away as Maine...
Never Too Late Film Program at the boston Public Library presents "Tryin' to Get Home: a history of African-American song." Copley. 536-5400, ext. 296. 2 p.m. FREE...