Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sunrise, Yaqub-Khan was on the phone again: "My comrade, it is the beginning of a new day," he said to Khaalis. "I would like you, my brother, to join in a prayer to Allah that it will be a day of compassion, honor and bravery." Khaalis protested that the place where he was appeared "unclean." This remark convinced the negotiators that Khaalis was a devout Muslim who would pray only in clean surroundings, as Islamic tradition prescribes. Now there was hope, for a source of leverage existed-the compassion cited in the Koran...
...article written on February 22, 1977 entitled "Black Group Remembers Malcolm X." It is the opinion of the writers of this letter (as representatives of the Student Committee on Afro-American Studies--SCAAS) that the article totally misrepresented the major theme and intentions of the forum given in honor of Malcolm X, primarily through faulty journalistic practices. We would first like to criticize the haphazard journalism, and then clarify those ideas which we wanted to communicated through the forum...
...even changed the group's name. Once the Nation of Islam, it now calls itself the World Community of Islam in the West, or the Bilalians, in honor of Bilal, Mohammed's first black follower. Ministers, now termed imams, are expected to instruct members in the Koran and the Bible. At "temples," renamed "mosques," the seats have been ripped out so that members can prostrate themselves during prayer. Wallace also stresses such traditional "pillars" of observance as the month-long fast of Ramadan, the five daily prayers while facing Mecca, and the Hajj (pilgrimage...
...sort of a second effort trophy," said head coach John Lee to describe Bixby's and Mason's silverware, which was bequeathed in honor of late Harvard wrestler John Imire...
They have been sponsored in honor of last February's Black History Month by the Afro-American Studies department and the HRBAS. The African and Western forces spurring on Thompson's art seem apparently at harmony with another. For these works are for all humans, created by a black artist who would rather devote energy to reaching people positively, than by protest. As a result, they seem warm and very approachable--the kind of art you want to touch and hold, as well...