Word: all-black
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...invaded Mississippi to fight nonviolently for civil rights. But Moses was also a math teacher, and that combination of callings helps explain what he has since become. Every Monday during the school year, Moses leaves his home in Cambridge, Mass., and flies to Jackson, Miss., to teach algebra at all-black Lanier High School. Moses, 66, is determined to make mathematical literacy as much a battle cry as voting rights were 40 years ago. He wants to overthrow what he calls "sharecropper education" by helping all students master algebra, preferably by the eighth grade, so they are ready to take...
...harmless drivel they pump out for the next hour is entirely uninteresting. Their attempt at a bad boy look, with all-black outfits and the occasional smoldering glance would probably have elicited multiple beatings in a rough neighbourhood. As vocalists, their wispy sound has to be augmented substantially by a large backing band and background vocals. As for dancing, O-Town’s bored movements lack either energy or real soul...
DIED. MAUDE RUTHERFORD, 104, the "Slim Princess" and Cotton Club singer and dancer who claimed to have introduced the Charleston to Broadway in the 1922 all-black revue Liza; in Atlantic City, N.J. Despite her considerable talent, Rutherford, who worked with Josephine Baker, was usually cast as comic relief, never the star...
...afternoon with a panel held in the ARCO Forum on the responsibilities of black artists as role models. Featured guests included "Kool" DJ Red Alert, stage and screen actor Obba Babatunde, newly appointed Quincy Jones Professor of Music Ingrid Monson and Stacey Spikes, CEO of Urbanworld Films, the first all-black production company...
...Dennis Oppenheim's playful pieces literally converse with each other. Located on the veranda of the Quinn cafeteria, "Black" is an installation of large pots and kettles that seem to have jumped straight out of Alice in Wonderland. With lids jutting out like pouting lips, the kitchenware sculptures resemble insulted individuals. The scene is narrated by a recording of Oppenheim's own voice muttering "B-b-b-b-black," a stuttered word that serves as social commentary and amusing dialogue as the all-black pots and kettles try to insult one another...