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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Raitt has put her music to good use, in special concerts for women's organizations and human-rights groups. In 1979, Raitt helped to organize five concerts by Musicians United for Safe Energy (MUSE). In 1985, she sang and appeared in the video of an anti-apartheid record titled Sun City...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Activism and Song: the Raitt Way to Do It | 6/3/1997 | See Source »

...came up with this name: I'm a 'Cablinasian,' " which he explained is a self-crafted acronym that reflects his one-eighth Caucasian, one-fourth black, one-eighth American Indian, one-fourth Thai and one-fourth Chinese roots with a precision that a racial-classifications expert under South African apartheid would admire. He said that when he was asked to check a box for racial background, he couldn't settle on just one. "I checked off 'African American' and 'Asian.' Those are the two I was raised under, and the only two I know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACE: I'M JUST WHO I AM | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

When Robinson took the field with the Dodgers for the first time on April 12, 1947, America was wallowing in apartheid. A year before Robinson's breakthrough, Major League Baseball had conducted a secret study of the impact of allowing black athletes to play the national game. It concluded that integrating the teams would not only offend white sensibilities but also lower the standard of play. Maybe someday, when blacks were ready, baseball could take the risk. How familiar these arguments sound a half-century later in the debate over affirmative action. It's not remarked on much these days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JACKIE ROBINSON: STEPPING UP TO THE PLATE | 3/31/1997 | See Source »

...rogue terrorist-sponsoring nations such as Iran, Libya, and Syria in the Wilsonian hope that we will make them "safe for democracy?" (The U.S. is, incidentally, conspicuously alone in the crusade against these nations as well.) Were we not right to have imposed economic sanctions against South Africa during Apartheid in spite of the negative economic effects of the sanctions for both the United States and South Africa...

Author: By Justin C. Danilewitz, | Title: The Cuba/China Contradiction | 2/25/1997 | See Source »

...confront the discomforting fact that each and every day millions of black Americans are unfairly denied employment and promotions, or insulted and intimidated at work. His arguments are not only unconvincing and ill-founded but are also representative of an ideology which seeks to defend the legacy of American apartheid and white supremacy: institutional racism. Instead of acknowledging the effects of racism and seeking to propose solutions, Leo brays about "bad publicity" and "questionable evidence." He fears that companies will "lurch toward a quota system," which may prevent discrimination lawsuits but will undermine meritocracy...

Author: By David W. Brown, | Title: Reaffirming Racism | 2/19/1997 | See Source »

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