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DIED. LEON DAY, 78, baseball player; in Baltimore, Maryland. Day was a pitching star in the Negro National League in the 1930s and '40s, known for striking out 18 players in a game. A week before his death, Day was inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame...
...works considered "American." It opens with three objects representing at first glance Native American, European and African-American cultural heritage: a contemporary sculpture by Creek Indian artist Joseph Johns, Gilbert Stuart's iconized portrait of George Washington, and a rubbing from a Cambridge Cemetery gravestone which reads, "Cicely, Negro, Late Servant to Ye Revd. Mr. William Brattle...
Just as the word "Negro" is defined by the dictionary in the same way as the now preferable term "African-American," it projects an extra meaning due to its association with racial segregation and oppression. In the same way, over-slanted eyes and buckteeth dredge up negative associations with early Hollywood depictions of Chinese-Americans...
...political, the place to do that is politics," he says. "If I want to give you a message, I can write it down. I have a deep concern for the condition of black youth, but my way of dealing with it is to donate money to the United Negro College Fund. I think that does more than any dance...
Even so, in 1990, Wilson touched off a controversy by insisting that only a black director could bring the right perspective to a film version of Fences, his 1985 drama about the life of a former Negro League baseball player. The movie has yet to be made. Wilson is equally skeptical of so-called color-blind casting, in which black actors play traditionally white parts and vice versa. "I don't think you can do a black Death of a Salesman, for example, without looking at the fact that here's a black guy who's going around knocking...