Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rocha, now 29, draws inspiration for his lyrics from bands like Public Enemy and writers like James Baldwin and Eduardo Galeano. Songs on the new CD take on the media coverage of the Gulf War and the plight of Mumia Abu-Jamal, a black journalist on death row whom many people (De la Rocha included) feel was unjustly convicted...
CARLOS SANTANA Black Magic comeback: Woodstock vet's album soars to No. 1. AARP to sponsor tour...
DIED. CALVIN GRIFFITH, 87, parsimonious owner of baseball's Minnesota Twins--until 1960 the Washington Senators; in Minneapolis. His comments in 1978 on moving the team--which included the assertion that Washington's "black people...put up such a chant they'll scare you to death"--led future Hall of Famer Rod Carew to bolt for the California Angels the next year...
...much Fleiss originally paid for her four little black books--made by Gucci and seized...
...foxhole with than Tom Joyner and Tavis Smiley. The host of the widely syndicated Tom Joyner Morning Show and his commentator sidekick are very tough guys. Yet the victory they scored last week by persuading CompUSA Inc., the largest U.S. computer retailer, to dramatically expand its advertising in black-owned media really belongs to the show's 7 million, mostly African-American, listeners. They showed how powerful consumers can be in the fight for racial respect...