Word: derrick
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Derrick Coleman led the Hornets with 17 points...
Performances ranged from the serious to the light-hearted. White-Peppers presented a selection from a musical written by Derrick N. Ashong '97-'98, Songs We Can't Sing. Black Students Association Vice President Jason B. Phillips '99 did a comedy routine, poking fun at Ally McBeal, Oprah Winfrey and shopping period...
This injustice is most palpable on city streets. In places like New York there are more black and Hispanic kids in prison than in college. That injustice may have played a role in the fate of Derrick Smith, a New York City youth who in October faced a sentence of 15 years to life for selling crack. At the sentence hearing a distraught Smith told the judge, "I'm only 19. This is terrible." He then hurled himself out of a courtroom window and fell 16 stories to his death. "He didn't kill anyone; he didn't rob anyone...
...Derrick Bell, Visiting Professor, New York University Law School
Furthermore, Garcia inaccurately quoted the response to Lydon by Greg Moore, managing editor of The Boston Globe. Moore expressed disdain for Toni Morrison's views, not for Lydon's. And lastly, Lydon did not disagree with a point made by Globe columnist Derrick Z. Jackson, namely that the media tend to portray successful white athletes as intelligent and successful black athletes as physically gifted...