Word: brokenness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...study showing that light-skinned immigrants in the U.S. earn more money on average than darker-skinned immigrants confirmed what many African Americans have privately known for years: that there are benefits simply for being a minority who is fairer. Traditionally, "beauty barriers" have almost exclusively been broken by lighter-skinned blacks - from the earliest black sex symbols such as Lena Horne and Dorothy Dandridge to the first black Miss America, Vanessa Williams. This is why Sims was such a revelation: a beautiful black woman who was - from her skin tone to her hair texture - truly and quintessentially black...
...years of war to build a new nation based on justice and equality for all people," he thundered before a crowd of some 4,000 gathered on the banks of one of Afghanistan's largest rivers. "No corruption was our hope. But today those hopes are broken, and that is why I am here before you." (See pictures of a U.S. Marine offensive in Afghanistan...
...teach about HIV transmission. I've walked around town wearing a paper hat and cape, spitting memorized Swahili phrases through a megaphone to encourage people to get tested for HIV, I’ve tried to barter with women selling maize at the market, telling them in my broken Swahili that I'll mind their stands while they go get tested...
...should be) a place of plenty, a former food exporter that was ruined, beaten and starved by the ineptitude, corruption and paranoia of its aging dictator, a liberation hero who led Zimbabwe to independence but - in a familiar African refrain - came to personify all the tragedy and broken promise of a continent. I'd had my own brief disaster there in April 2007, when, the day after I arrived, the subject of my very first interview asked me to wait while he ran to do a quick errand, returning minutes later with two policemen. I spent five days in jail...
...this year's anniversary, a most unlikely voice spoke out. Salvatore (Toto) Riina, the Mafia's notorious former boss of bosses, has broken his silence from his prison cell near Milan, where he is serving a life sentence for dozens of homicides, including the masterminding of the Borsellino hit and one three months earlier of another crusading Sicilian prosecutor, Giovanni Falcone. (See pictures of life in Italy...