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Students interviewed after the debate said it shed light on the emotional issues surrounding "gangsta" rap. "It brought a lot of issues to the forefront that need to be discussed," said Alvin L. Bragg '95, former BSA president...
...eight male finalists were: Alvin Bragg, Currier; Will Buckner, North; Richard A. Cole, Dudley; John Ronan Connally, Currier; Abbas A. Hyderi, Eliot House; Jamie Miller, Adams; Ernie Minelli, Eliot; and Eric Navales, Kirkalnd...
...Tony Award for his direction of Angels in America. Novelist Toni Morrison became the first black woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Rita Dove was appointed the country's first black poet laureate. Two works inspired by the Rodney King affair -- 56 Blows, a symphony by Alvin Singleton, and Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, a one- woman docudrama by playwright and performer Anna Deavere Smith -- were rousing successes. Yusef Komunyakaa became the third black, after Gwendolyn Brooks and Rita Dove, to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. The emotionally charged dances of choreographer Bill T. Jones -- who some critics...
Jones is not the only black choreographer to resist the aesthetic dominance of the late, great Alvin Ailey, whose masterworks were mostly composed to black music and whose themes were rooted in African-American history. The austere, abstract work of Ralph Lemon, 42, for example, owes a clear visual debt to such white Post-modern experimentalists as Meredith Monk and Trisha Brown. With their sense of order and symmetry, Lemon's dances even resemble the plotless ballets of George Balanchine, in spirit if not vocabulary. When a friend in Denver challenged Lemon to create a piece with a black theme...
Brooklyn-born Alvin Singleton, 53, also comfortably bridges the gap between European and black forms, though many of his pieces explore black themes. His orchestral composition Even Tomorrow, for example, is an homage to Thurgood Marshall, but the music itself is strictly formal in style...