Word: all-black
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...time leading scorer, who won six championships, has lately been focusing on a different kind of team. In his fifth book, Brothers in Arms (co-written with Anthony Walton), Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, 57, chronicles the 761st Tank Battalion, an all-black unit that helped liberate dozens of towns in World War II. TIME's Sean Gregory talked last week with the Hall of Famer...
...whole of the Guggenheim Museum has been given over to "Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated): Art from 1951 to the Present." While that show focuses mainly on the same crucial years as MOCA's, it also looks back to earlier prototypes--Robert Rauschenberg's all-white paintings, Ad Reinhardt's all-black ones--and forward to more recent artists who have slyly adapted what Minimalism first offered...
Whatever the causes, there are fundamental differences between the experiences of black children in all-black schools today and what their predecessors endured 50 years ago. Not only do they have opportunities beyond the dreams of their grandparents, but advancements in media technology present powerful images of role models to them that they can’t easily ignore. Yes, some of these images are of unsavory athletes, entertainers and other miscreant personalities, but it would be disingenuous to say that no positive images cross their “radar screens...
...all-black institutions, from elementary schools to East Topeka High, have been closed up or torn down, and their students dispersed throughout the district. Behind the Gothic facade of Topeka High, the city's largest high school, a racially diverse blend of students (at 61% white, 20% black, 14% Latino and 5% other, it approximates the district's ethnic breakdown) intermingles on the football field, in the cafeteria and on the broad plaza outside the school. This year, it so happens, all four class presidents are Latino. Small victories like these have led black and white Topekans to declare...
...stay with relatives or studied in small groups in churches and homes. Many simply went without schooling at all, as Moseley did at first. After two years of sitting at home, Moseley got an opportunity to stay with a family 140 miles away in Blacksburg, Va., and attended an all-black school there. "I used to cry in silence at night for my family," Moseley remembers. She returned to Prince Edward two years later to attend the privately funded "free schools" created as a temporary remedy by local black leaders. "They threw us all in together, taught a little...