Word: afros
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...least a century now, Blacks have sought an identifier which truly defined a diverse race of people and their past. Blacks have answered to colored, Negro (with and without the capital N), Afro-American and, of course, Black...
...Sullivan, the most outspoken proponent of rent control, announced his withdrawal from the 1989 council race this fall, citing a need to spend time with his family. And Saundra M. Graham, a fellow rent control supporter, says she is retiring from elected office to work with the League of Afro-American Women, a local minority entrepreneurship organization...
...term Afro American came into vogue during the 1970s, but African American is just beginning to catch on. Former tennis champion Arthur Ashe has written a new three-volume book, A Hard Road to Glory, that is subtitled A History of the African-American Athlete. While some people may find the phrase too much of a mouthful, it does have what Jackson calls "cultural integrity," conveying the dual heritage of blacks born and bred in this country...
...graduate student at Harvard from 1968 to 1972, Rampersad says his experience in academia has been typical of his generation. While at Harvard, Rampersad for the first time encountered Black literature in the classroom--as a section leader for Roger Rosenblatt's course on Afro-American fiction, which was the first course of its kind taught at Harvard...
Rampersad says that the large extent to which undergraduates were involved in the discipline's formation has affected the future course of Afro-American studies. For example, Rosenblatt's course on Black fiction was brought into the curriculum as a result of lobbying efforts by students, he says...