Word: afro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Covello described the suspect as a Black male with a medium build and short afro, approximately 30 years old, wearing and olive green jacket and olive green shirt with dark pants...
Malcolm X trumpeted the need for radical change and a reexamination of a system which distributes a poorer way of life to one segment of the population while another lives in relative comfort. At the same time he managed to convey a new sense of worth to Afro-Americans and a sense of worth of unity for all people of color...
...University established a Committee on African and Afro-American Studies to explore the academic and cultural needs of Black students. Headed by Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky, the committee's final report expressed "the sense of urgency felt by the Committee and by our witnesses" and called not only for the creation of a degree-granting Afro-American Studies committee, but also for a "social and cultural center for black students...
...Cuban inflections keep the temperature high in Paquito's distinctive brand of bop. "He really is a pure jazz player with strong Afro-Cuban roots in his music," says Lundvall, who has moved on to become president of Elektra/Asylum/Nonesuch Records. "You hear that Latin fire. He has a sound that is totally identifiable." Paquito's easy access to the American jazz mainstream is largely attributable to his zest and finesse on the alto and soprano sax, and partly ascribable to the fact that he is playing in a familiar groove, which may stray in a friendly fashion from...
Others cautioned against taking too much encouragement from the fall's tenure figures. Nathan I. Huggins, chairman of the Afro-American Studies Department, suggests that Harvard tenures so few professors each year that isolating any single year's statistics can be misleading. "It may be another decade before another woman is promoted to tenure," he says...