Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This February she stepped down from her job to work full-time on a biography of her great-great-grandmother, Madam C.J. Walker, a civil rights activist and pioneer in the hair care industry. An expert on Walker, Bundles successfully lobbied the U.S. Postal Service to feature her ancestor on a stamp last year...
...Dean of Student Archie C. Epps III also attributes the more broadly based student activism of the '60s to the Vietnam War and the fight for civil rights. Epps says comparisons between today's activism and '60s activism are unfair...
...mayors of many cities, has made with his mostly white core political supporters. They reckon that voters will tolerate heavy-handed police tactics as long as they don't have to see them; that most nonwhites, especially young males, are considered suspect, and that wholesale violations of their civil liberties are an acceptable price to pay for a drop in the crime rate. That is why police brutality is an explosive issue from New York to Los Angeles, where protests broke out last week after police shot and killed Margaret L. Mitchell, a college-educated black woman who had been...
Poor Kosovo. This place of exquisite beauty, of red poppy fields and lush green forests, of medieval fortresses atop majestic mountains, seems doomed to be saddled with the epithet "war-torn Kosovo." It has been turned into a battlefield, a place where distinctions between civil and military life have been erased, first by Serb troops and then by NATO bombs. Kosovo last week was a place of constant machine-gun fire, of thundering NATO jets and of an awareness that each step could be your last...
When O.J. Simpson hurtled down the freeway in his Bronco, Deena Mullen missed it. She also skipped the televised trial involving "that basketball player." Mullen's distance from the case that compelled the universe won her a spot on the jury of Simpson's civil trial. Here, in an affecting hour-long monologue, Mullen, chillingly, economically, reduces the Simpson affair to what it was: a grisly murder...