Word: blacks
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...host of rappers, including Snoop Dogg and the gruff-voiced Mystikal. Some of Carey's lyrics are revealing: "I gravitated towards a patriarch," the now divorced diva sings in Petals. Some of her music, however, is less pointed and could use more grit. Carey longs for the hard black soul of the street, but she hovers a bit above it, heat shimmering off the asphalt...
...found the statistics for academic achievement among Webster Groves' African-American students particularly disheartening. It is very sad that the school would place the academic success of its black students, particularly its star athlete, so low. Athletes are to be thanked for the many hours of enjoyment they bring us. Our greatest achievements, however, have been directed by those who possess powerful analytical skills for critiquing both our culture and the nature of man's existence. Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X--none of these men came to prominence by way of athletics. They wielded...
Since the tragedy at Littleton, people have been searching for indicators that identify "troubled teens," such as black clothes, "hard" music, dyed hair and body piercing [SPECIAL REPORT, Oct. 25]. When will people realize that subscribing to such stereotypes will only exacerbate the problems already present in our high schools? I have dyed my hair many times since I began my freshman year. I have a nose ring, and I enjoy wearing black clothes. I also have a 3.88 G.P.A. We should be focusing our diagnostic attentions on the problematic sources that lurk at levels far below the superficiality...
DIED. DAISY BATES, 84, civil rights leader whose memoir, The Long Shadow of Little Rock, won a 1988 American Book Award; in Little Rock, Ark. During rioting in 1957 over the integration of Central High, Bates advised the nine black students. With her husband, she founded the Arkansas State Press--a key voice for the movement. Her crusade, she said, "had a lot to do with removing fear that people have for getting involved...
...mysterious disaster whose investigation produces no answers, only forensically guided hypotheses. Hopes that the cockpit voice recorder would unlock the mystery appear to have been dashed Monday, as sources close to the investigation indicated that the tape provided no answers. Evidence from the first "black box" had established that the Boeing 767's engines were turned off at 33,000 feet, precipitating a plunge of 16,000 feet in just 40 seconds before the plane steeply climbed for a mile and a half and then finally plunged into the ocean. That shifted the locus of the investigation - and most conspiratorial...