Word: afros
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. ELLA COLLINS, 82, civil rights activist and half-sister of Malcolm X who took over the Organization of Afro-American Unity in the wake of Malcolm's assassination; in Boston...
Weiner Professor of Public Policy William Julius Wilson, Harvard's most prized recruit, will teach two seminars offered jointly through the Kennedy School and the Department of Afro-American Studies. In the fall, Wilson will lead a class on sociological perspectives on racial inequality in America; in the spring, he'll teach a seminar on race, class and poverty in urban America...
...approach is to embrace mainstream culture, the sitcoms, the Coca-Cola, the straight-ahead pop music and, of course, the English language. The other way is to assert your own identity, your own heritage, and compel the rest of America to taste your spices, to dance to your Afro-Cuban grooves. Estefan has done both. From the mid-1980s on, her work with the Miami Sound Machine consisted mostly of processed American-style dance music seasoned with punchy Latin rhythms. "She was the first to take Latin-influenced music, the heavy percussion sounds, mainstream," says Jon Secada, a singer-songwriter...
...First marriages as a percentage of all marriages involving one Afro-American...
...success story has clearly been in the Department of Afro-American Studies. Working with Gates since the beginning of his tenure, Rudenstine has amassed a "dream team," arguably the most impressive list of Afro-American scholars in the world...