Word: afros
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While speaking to an Afro-American Studies class yesterday, Quincy D. Jones Jr., the popular R&B musician and producer, mentioned that Time Warner will provide a matching grant to permanently endow the visiting chair now in Jones' name...
...speech to students in Afro-American Studies 154: "Black Music: Race, Politics and Culture," Jones discussed aspects of his own life as well as the resurgence of R&B, its roots and influences and the notion of a connection between race and talent. Jones said he does not believe the two are related...
...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...