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...eight ball for a face, with large eyes and a line for a mouth with a shadow around it to represent oversized lips." The crude caricatures gave way to less offensive images during the civil rights movement. A black playmate, Franklin, joined the Peanuts gang in 1968; the Afro-wearing Lieut. Flap became the resident militant in Beetle Bailey in 1970. Subsidiary characters popped up in other strips. The movement got an even more important boost when editors drafted black cartoonists and illustrators such as Morrie Turner and Brumsic Brandon Jr., Barbara's father, to create new strips like...
...serve a more diverse community, Hispanic leaders have demanded more of the health-care jobs. But blacks view the facility, built after the Watts riots in 1965, as a symbol of their hard-fought struggle for civil rights. Says Eugene Grigsby III, acting director of UCLA's Center for Afro-American Studies: "The feeling is we've been left out so long, now these new kids on the block who haven't paid their dues, who haven't fought in the streets, who haven't put up with racism and discrimination, all of a sudden, because they have only...
Wole Soyinka, the 1986 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, read selected passages from his books and poems yesterday in a lecture sponsored by the Afro-American Studies Department...
Reeves said undergraduate voters are interested in his stance in favor of permitting city employees to name domestic partners as recipients of their city benefits. He added that he participated in last year's rallies protesting the lack of professors in Harvard's Afro-American Studies Department...
Later, I asked him what he thought about Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., chair of Harvard's Afro-American Studies Department. At this point, Jeffries's remarks turned vicious...