Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...camera pans over an array of shiny chrome and black exercise machines, a few big brawny biceps and rippling tummy muscles flash across the screen, and the sound of clanging metal plates in the background is punctuated by not a few ominous grunts and groans. Dressed in some space-age lace leotard, Cher, lying in a sexy position on an exercise machine, comes into full view and tells you, "Face it, if a good body came in a bottle, everyone would have...
WHAT exactly happened to two Black Harvard students around 9 p.m. last Tuesday night remains muddled. Witnesses say the pair had run to catch a University shuttle bus when, upon boarding, several police cars blocked the van and a Black police officer shined a flashlight in their faces and ordered them to get off. The pair were then searched without explanation and, after officers found nothing, were left without notice of why they were stopped, the students...
However, the two Black students say the police harassed them and singled them out in the crowded shuttle because of their color. Cambridge police declined for six days to comment on the incident...
...students' allegations, while damning if proven true, have in the immediate confusion been overwhelmed by the storm of anger and resentment among the Black community. Outrage has taken the form of threatened appeals for legal action to the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Harvard and Cambridge Police departments and supervisory boards...
...uproar has indicated that the Black community on this campus feels that there is an issue of general police racism, which transcends this individual incident. A survey of upperclassmen last spring, for example, revealed that 45 percent of Black students responding said that they believed that minorities were treated differently by University police most or all of the time. No matter what happened last week, we must take advantage of this opportunity to discuss such concerns and seek possible solutions...