Word: colorism
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...last settlement, where he tracked down and recorded the music of Baamar Salmou. Doueh, as Salmou is known, had apparently refused recording contracts with major labels in Africa and Europe. The result of those recordings is nothing short of remarkable. Each song reverberates with a deeply rooted local color and ethnic identity, with a language and tone that sharply separate the music from anything being made in the West. But there is also the undeniable presence of late-60s British blues and the more psychedelic work of Hendrix. For those used to high-quality recording, production value, and lyrical...
Eventually, the fluid will be a drop of a patient’s blood, sweat, or urine, which will then be separated into compartments on the paper that will change color to indicate the presence of certain enzymes or proteins that in turn could indicate certain diseases...
...school administration to make our restrooms safe and accessible for people regardless of their gender identity or expression. We should also urge the law school and Harvard in general to be more attentive to the needs of LGBT people from low-income backgrounds and LGBT people of color. Moreover, Lambda must turn this critical gaze inward and query why its membership is overwhelmingly comprised of white...
...nickname he had dropped after the earliest days of their marriage, “Feefs, we can go back again. He’s not there any more.”There was a brief pause. Husband and wife stared absently at the flower beds, their riot of color held back within borders.“Where is the Stable Boy?” Frederick was thinking. And Felicity, “The Stable Boy--where is he?”But when the moment passed Felicity simply repeated, “This is our home...
...first floor, as well as those that are far more surprising. There are too many great works to talk about in one room, let alone three floors. There’s the Byzantine stone and glass mosaic on the fourth floor that recalls the short, bright strokes of color in Klimt’s “Pear Tree” on the first, as well as Josiah Wedgwood’s 18th century English reproduction of the Portland Vase which is not only reminiscent of Greek red and black figure pottery, but also appears in William Michael Harnett?...