Word: blackly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PLACE TO BE SOMEBODY. Charles Gordone's story of black-white and black-black relations is flawed by melodrama; yet the play ticks with menace and is unexpectedly and explosively funny...
...YOUNG, GIFTED AND BLACK is a series of readings from the works of the late playwright Lorraine Hansberry, in which whites as well as blacks speak for her. Suffused with a glowing concern for all humanity, as well as with anger at injustice, it is something of a milestone in the current white-black confrontation...
TIME'S first issue this year reported that 1968 "was a year of revolutionaries. Students and militants, black and white, neophyte radicals and New Leftists raised fists and hurled stones at the old order." So far, 1969 has seen fewer violent confrontations. Yet the would-be revolutionaries remain, and the year's greatest issue by far has been question and protest about the quality and direction of life in the richest, most advanced nation on earth. TIME'S job has been not only to report on the rush of events, but to analyze their deeper meanings...
...Vietnam 15 of those fighting men wore black armbands to protest the war while on patrol in a battle zone...
...outbreaks of violence occurred when about a dozen black militants, joined by other anti-war demonstrators attempted to crash the northwest gate of the White House. The protesters were quickly routed as U.S. park police arrested five. A fist-swinging melee developed as anti-Moratorium picketers attacked the protest-in Congress the halls were relatively quiet as many of the members spent the day speaking to Moratorium crowds across the nation. Anti-war Representatives were blocked in their efforts to keep the House in session all Tuesday night...