Word: negroness
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...years later, Jordan was named executive director of the United Negro College Fund, and he moved to New York City; in his first twelve months the organization raised a record $8 million for its 36 member colleges. When Whitney Young Jr. drowned in Nigeria in 1971, Jordan succeeded him as head of the National Urban League. It had been founded in 1910 to help black migrants from the rural South find jobs, housing and education in Northern cities...
...black man (Charles Brown), loves his farm. The plowing, the planting, the harvesting form the serene inner rhythm of his life. Through good times and bad, Cephus' jovial imperturbability, his native resilience and his purity of spirit form the core of this warm drama. Originally presented by the Negro Ensemble Company at St. Mark's Play house in Greenwich Village and currently housed at Broadway's Cort Theater, Home explores the texture of the black experience from the inside looking out with some rue but no hostility...
...black power fronts in Africa and the Caribbean: "Racial redemption is as irrelevant for the Negro as for everybody else. It obscures the problems of a small independent country with a lopsided economy, the problems of a fully 'consumer' society that is yet technologically untrained and without the intellectual means to comprehend the deficiency...
...understand the feeling that comes to a Southern Negro on entering Federal Court," Viorst quotes King, "unless he sees with his own eyes and feels with his own soul the tragic sabotage of justice in the city and state courts of the South. The Negro goes into these courts knowing that the cards are stacked against him...But the Southern Negro goes into the Federal Court with the feeling that he has an honest chance of justice before...
Modigliani has both a sensual solace and a fiery challenge in his English mistress and nude model, Beatrice Hastings. Mary-Joan Negro plays this role with such formidable passion and intelligence as to conjure up Goethe's "eternal feminine" as the root impulse of creation. Wisely, touchingly, Playwright Dennis Mclntyre treats of the artist's self-arming ego and his nightmares of self-doubt. In the title role, Jeffrey de Munn is protean, a mercurial mixture of earth, air, fire and water...