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...great and poignant pageant. This was the Rumble in the Jungle, the 1974 fight with George Foreman in Zaire. That country's dictator, Mobutu Sose Seko, had laid out $10 million of his country's puny resources to play host to the fight and a festival of African and Afro-American music. "We left Africa in shackles and fetters and chains," said promoter Don King in a spume of eloquence. "We are coming back in an aura of splendor and scintillating glory. The champions are here...
...African-Am., Afro-Am., black," suggests the response...
When Ben W. Hulse '99 tried to sell back his Afro-American Studies 10 books which he estimated to be worth $110, the Coop offered...
...elegist. "All the things we talked about," he says of Cookie when he thinks she might be dead, "things she wanted to do--then she ups and dies. I don't wanna go out like that." Later he speaks one of the most introspective lines in the Afro-action canon: "Somehow I don't think this was my parents' dream for me." With Shakur's death, Hollywood lost part of its own dream to become a robust rainbow cinema. Gridlock'd gives a taste of what the movies are going to miss...
...Afro-Am 123z meets Mondays from 2 to 4 p.m. in Austin North at the Law School, just behind the Littauer building...