Word: afro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...store carries publications, pamphlets and posters for the organization which the group of eight collective owners support. "Right now we're selling tickets for a concert by 'Sweet Honey in the Rock.' They play Afro-American gospel music with a political message," he added...
Isaacs former assistant professor of Afro-American Studies, charged that in denying him tenure in 1975 the University discriminated against him on the basis of his face and Elliopran nationality. He alleged that this discrimination had led to irregularities in procedures in his case and that the procedure followed by Harvard in evaluating applications for tenure in the Afro-American Studies Department were inconsistent with those followed in regard to all other departments...
John Womuck Jr. 59 chairman of the History Department, helped circulate the petition nationwide. Other prominent University faculty members singing the statement included Harvey G.Con Jr. Thomas professor of Divinity, Stephen Jay Could, Professor of Ceology; Nuthan I, Huggin chairman of the Afro-American studies Department and Martin L. Kilson Jr. professor of Government...
...Afro-Americans have had, God knows, more than out fair share of political hustlers--from Marcus Garvey to Eldredge Cleaver--but they don't usually turn up as students at top-level law schools like Harvard Law. Then again, maybe they should be at places like Harvard Law, for, God knows, there have been enough white political hustlers--of every ethnic description, from Irish to WASP--around the place...
...Mohammad Kenyatta isn't just like any political hustler. He's special. Anybody who believes, as Mr. Kenyatta does, that the high unemployment rate and skills deficiency among Afro-Americans can be attributed "to the failure of past civil rights strategies" can believe anything. Though civil rights leaders made mistakes in the past and are still making some today, blame for the job and skills crisis plaguing perhaps 35 percent of Blacks belongs one place only--at the feet of America's economic and political elite who lack the moral vision to confront the chronic unemployment of Blacks in post...