Word: derrike
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Echo Park, now playing at the historic Apollo Theater in Harlem, is an early attempt to combine the outsider rhythms of hip-hop with the conventions of musical theater. Echo Park's story line is slim and simple: Scott Jenkins (Derrik "Nine" Keyes), a young man growing up in the early days of rap, longs to be a deejay but has to persuade his mother Bertha (DK Dyson) to let him follow his dreams. Along the way, the show tries to educate the audience about hip-hop history (rap pioneer Kurtis Blow plays a narrator). Strangely, the rap songs...
...more than 20 years, students at HLS have protested the school's discriminatory faculty hiring practices. They have received support from distinguished professors, such as Derrik Bell who, in April 1991, proclaimed he was taking an unpaid leave of absence until the school hired a woman of color for its tenured faculty. To date he has not returned. In addition, this case has drawn the attention of the national civil rights community. In January 1991, civil rights groups across the country from across the country, led by Boston Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, filed a friend...
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