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Other, more realistic situations, however, have a darker source of humor. There’s the neighbor who rushes out in the middle of the night armed with a gardening implement because she thought she heard a “Negro.” Peter’s elderly billionaire client Mrs. Arness (Joan Plowright) fondly reminisces about Ivy, the unpaid black servant her family employed in her youth. These culture clashes, which provide much of the movie’s humor, have the potential to offend, but shouldn’t. Instead, these scenes highlight Peter?...
...COLOR YELLOW: BEAUFORD DELANEY. The 20th-century African-American expatriate artist Beauford Delaney is probably the least known or understood talent among the Abstract Expressionists. Pigeon-holed as a “Negro artist” by early critics, Delaney nonetheless lived a life of love and art. This retrospective of his work, from the portraits and cityscapes done in New York’s Greenwich Village in the 1940s to the abstract work that followed his 1953 move to Paris, demonstrate his wide vocabulary of topics and emotional colors. Through May 4. Hours...
...female Passenger who came From Calais with us, spotless in array,- A white-robed Negro, like a lady gay, Yet downcast as a woman fearing blame; Meek, destitute, as seemed, of hope or aim She sate, from notice turning not away, But on all proffered intercourse did lay A weight of languid speech, or to the same No sign of answer made by word or face: Yet still her eyes retained their tropic fire, That, burning independent of the mind, Joined with the lustre of her rich attire To mock the Outcast - O ye Heavens, be kind! And feel, thou...
...Guinier suggested the following passage from Dr. Martin Luther King’s “A Testament to Hope” at the service celebrating his life in Memorial Church last week: “The black revolution is much more than a struggle for the rights of Negroes. It is forcing America to face all its interrelated flaws. They [Negro demands] are shattering the complacency that allowed a multitude of social evils to accumulate.” King goes on to say that Americans who value our national ideals will embrace these...
...principles. In stark contrast to Malcolm X, with whom he civilly debated, Rustin emphasized not what white Americans owed blacks or what blacks could do in a separatist ghetto but what blacks could contribute in a truly equal and integrated America. "I believe the great majority of the Negro people, black people, are not seeking anything from anyone," Rustin told Malcolm X in 1960. "They are seeking to become full-fledged citizens." The simplicity of that statement is as impressive as its moral clarity...