Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...March, the group will have a big black-tie fundraiser, including alumni. The timing may coincide with the 30th anniversary of the Afro-American studies department, in which case, Johnson says, she hopes Faculty and students can coordinate celebratory events...
...black student here at Harvard you need an outlet that brings students together," she says. "For me, my identity is as a black woman. Every day, I wake up and think--I'm a black woman. That's very important...
Johnson is from Ocean City, N.J., where she went to a high school that she estimates is about 7 percent black...
...dinner conversation gently to say she has to go. Five minutes after the meal has concluded, Johnson has sent an e-mail message to the BSA list. Next stop: Apollo Night in Lowell Lecture Hall, where once again, the mood will range from light to thoughtful, and Harvard's black students will congregate to fulfill one of the BSA's main goals for this year: to enjoy each other's company and to have a good time...
Parents have complained that the recent rave over the Potter books is nothing more than an evil curse, a sort of black magic that has cast its spell over fourth-graders everywhere. They argue that Rowling is promoting witchery (a bonafide religion in the United States) over good old-fashioned Christianity. You see, Harry Potter is no ordinary boy. He is a wizard-in-training, and in Rowling's books, there is a whole magic world out there which he inhabits. Except, of course, when he has to go home for the holidays...