Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nearly 300 people crowded the ARCO Forum to hear a vehement discussion between Lungren and former Black Panther Eddie Ellis and Marc Mauer, the author of The Race to Incarcerate...
...Ellis served 25 years in Attica, the New York State prison, after being investigated by COINTELPRO, the Federal Bureau of Investigation's counterintelligence program, for his involvement in the Black Panthers. He earned his master's degree while imprisoned in Attica...
...Amount a Florida restaurateur agreed to pay an African-American couple for arbitrarily adding a 15% gratuity to their bill and claiming that "black people don't tip well...
...welcome to debate the violence and the presentation of a Southern black (Jeffrey Wright, impeccably conflicted) fighting for the flag of slavery. But for all the period dressings, this could be a deadpan study of why kids in Sarajevo, Belfast or South Central pick up guns and start spraying the street. And for all the carnage, Lee's tone is contemplative. He pines for those quiet moments when a wounded man can sit holding a baby, the newborn sucking on the man's nubbin of a blasted-off finger...
LIGHT IT UP When you think of halogen bulbs, those omnipresent black floor lamps from Ikea may come to mind. But a new bulb from Philips will turn any fixture into a gale-force illuminator for $5.99. Halogena is the size of an ordinary incandescent but so intensely bright that Philips had to turn down the wattage from 75 to 40 for those bulbs that will take a star turn lighting the fabled Times Square ball on New Year...