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...Jackson argued that to be called "black" made the community "baseless," while "African-American" restored the community's "cultural integrity" and "proper historical context." Ramona Edelin, president of the National Urban Coalition, said in 1989 that "African-American" stood as an expression of unity with Africa and the African diaspora, of whom African-Americans were first and foremost a part; it is, she said, "our proper geopolitical identification" and "the first step in the cultural offensive" worldwide...
Virginia Gold, a director of CCS programs and an employee at the Fuller House, says the house caters to "kids of the African diaspora." Payments for day care are adjusted according to financial need...
...that historic September day on the White House lawn, Rabin warned Jews is the Diaspora that this peace process would not be so easy. It is not for any Jew to support Yasser Arafat in any endeavor. However, Arafat needs Western money and political support in order to create a viable democracy for the Palestinians. If the duly elected government of Israel can allocate millions of dollars to Arafat for this purpose, then the least we can do at Harvard is grant him a podium from which to make his plea for help and ignore the ravings of obstructionists such...
...Coolidge Corner Theatre, the Brattle Theatre and the Harvard Film Archive. Thirty-four films will be shown this year from Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, India, Israel, Mexico, Russia and the United States. Issues that are Highlighted in the films range from perspectives within the Jewish Diaspora to the quest for community among Jews of different age groups; and from Holocaust remembrances to the post-Holocaust lives of children...
Topics the fellows are covering this year include. "The Science of Skin Color in the Age of Reason," "African Initiatives against Minority Rule in South Africa: A Politicized Diaspora in World Politics" and "Towards an Historical Sociology of Cultural Complexity in African-American Populations...