Word: afrocentricism
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The Preacher and the Pol When Obama joined Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ in 1988, the Afrocentric church and its pastor held particular appeal to a 27-year-old son of an African father he barely knew and a white mother from Kansas. Obama was searching for an...
9. In a notorious example of this phenomenon, A Tribe Called Quest’s debut single “Can I Kick It?” takes Lou Reed’s “Take a Walk on the Wild Side,” relatively unadorned, as its...
He paused briefly to gather his thoughts. "But that common-sense message got lost because the school board wrapped it up in so much Afrocentric jargon and education-speak that people thought the board was trying to dumb down the curriculum by teaching bad grammar and syntax. There was enough...
Late in the film “Innocent Voices,” the 12-year-old main character waits on his knees to be executed by U.S.-trained government soldiers. Just before our young hero is shot, the country’s leftist guerillas attack and the boy is saved.Before...
THERE'S BEEN A FAIR BIT OF CRITICISM ABOUT THE LACK OF AFRICAN MUSICIANS ON THE LIVE 8 BILL. YOU'VE ANNOUNCED A SEPARATE AFROCENTRIC SHOW IN CORNWALL, BUT WHY NOT INTEGRATE THE AFRICAN ACTS INTO THE OTHER LINE-UPS? ISN'T CULTURAL AWARENESS AS IMPORTANT AS ISSUE AWARENESS?