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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they come to understand what Price cannot, and they tell their stories in sharply distinct voices. Orleanna, the mother, at first an obedient 1950s wife who does not question bringing salvation to the heathens, struggles with remorse in her musings years later: "You'll say I walked across Africa with my wrists unshackled, and now I am one more soul walking free in a white skin." Sixteen-year-old Rachel, a teen queen who yearns for pop music and beauty aids, squawks, "Jeez oh man, wake me up when it's over." Ruth May, who is six and fearless, plays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hearts of Darkness | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

...skills and the knowledge. The fact that one of his two solo joints on the album was their first single might've been what delivered this message or the fact that he was the most adamant about his five-percenter beliefs, which fit right into the era of Africa medallions and Feared Black Planets. Regardless, everybody of course seated Brand Nu's beats, was amused by Derrick X's pre-B Real's nasalness and loved the Edie Brickell sample in "Slow Down"...but if you asked anybody whose lyrics was the tightest, they probably would've been like "Puba...

Author: By Andres A. Ramos, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Brand New Nubian | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

Billed as a "reality" movie, The Siege presents the all-too-plausible scenario of a group of terrorists wreaking havoc in New York City while our government leaders fumble and search for ways to cope. Following the bombing of American embassies in Africa by Muslim extremists and other escalating terrorist advances against the U.S., the film depicts events very similar to those that are happening around us, much as Primary Colors did about the Clinton sex scandal...

Author: By Keith D. Desrochers, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Under The Siege | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

Gobodo-Madikizela began her talk with a shorthistory of events that led to the TRC's creationin December 1995. Background information isnecessary, she said, "to give a clearunderstanding of the struggle of apartheid inSouth Africa...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: S. African Jurist Talks At Bunting | 11/5/1998 | See Source »

...found your presentation grueling and verymoving," one attendee said.CrimsonChristopher A. AmarTALKING ABOUT TRUTH: PUMLAGOBODO-MADIKIZELA, a member of South Africa'sTruth and Reconciliation Commission, speaks at theBunting Institute last night...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: S. African Jurist Talks At Bunting | 11/5/1998 | See Source »

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