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Stryon, who started out as a poet, said she first became interested in human rights after an Afro-Asian writers’ convention in Russia and then joined Amnesty International...

Author: By David E. Lopez-Lengowski and Steven T. A. Roach, CONTRIBUTING WRITERS | Title: Activist Chronicles Life Stories in Europe | 4/27/2010 | See Source »

Wale: Hip-hop, Afro-beat, reggae, a little bit, R&B, a lot of soul...

Author: By Clemmie S. Faust, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Wale | 4/15/2010 | See Source »

...designating subgroups - like Arabs, for example. (Many Jamaican- and Bahamian-Americans also feel the Census should list their Caribbean origins as a black subgroup.) And it should make clear that respondents can check more than one group. That matters in cases like that of blacks from Hispanic countries. Those Afro-Latinos have produced a video urging each other to check the black entry and not "Other" in the race section to ensure that Washington logs that reality as well as their Hispanic status...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Still Black or White: Why the Census Misreads Hispanics | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

Suddenly, we glimpsed what distinctly seemed to be a familiar well-trimmed afro disappearing at the crest of the staircase, and we pushed our way through the crowd of three people in hot pursuit.  What fate had grasped C.? Was a fight brewing? Or had it been a feminine grace that had led him upstairs, and had he found true love? He was nowhere to be seen in the upstairs hallway. We began to feel great concern and a twinge of jealousy...

Author: By Alexander J. Ratner and Lillian Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Tufts | 2/18/2010 | See Source »

Another change under review is letting people who check "white" or "black" to write in more specific information afterward. In recent years, groups representing a number of backgrounds, including Afro-Caribbean and Arab, have lobbied to be included separately on the Census instead of being confined to broad categories (black for people of Afro-Caribbean decent; white for those with Arab ancestry). By trying out additional write-in blanks, the Census is attempting to see what other designations it might be able to reliably collect data about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should the Census Be Asking People if They Are Negro? | 1/23/2010 | See Source »

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