Word: legacyism
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For the past decade Winfrey's obsession has been to share such feelings with all of America--to recast the discussion of slavery, presenting it not merely as a brutal, exploitative era in our history but as a kind of roll call of individual tragedy in which, as chattel, "you...
Winfrey has been drawing on that legacy for support since childhood. Throughout the years of being shuttled between her mother's apartment in Milwaukee, Wis., and her maternal grandmother's farm in the segregated town of Kosciusko, Miss., young Oprah maintained a fascination with black history and with slavery in...
The search is on for ideas to create a lasting legacy, says Esakin, "so that when we're all long gone, people will look back and say, 'These people left us gifts that keep on giving.'" Ideas on the drawing board: a park project, a work of art, a time...
But maybe Gershwin's greatest legacy is his third answer: how to use jazz in songs. To put it another way, What greater musical legacy has America given the world than the songs of Gershwin, Cole Porter and the rest of the gang? What body of our music has been...
In her book Sea Change and before legislators and others in power, she argues that the ocean gives us a 4 billion-year-old legacy--the living history of the world--and that we are blithely squandering our inheritance by way of pollution and overfishing. What is more: there is...