Word: negroness
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...Coles ’09 says. “That I found patently offensive, that this is the only time we have been called upon to help cast a role. It made me feel like I was the clearinghouse for black talent. What are we, 1-800-Cast-a-Negro?”BlackCAST has been active on the Harvard campus since 1960, the beginning of an era that spawned the Black Arts movement and saw playwrights like Amiri Baraka and Edward Bullins employ a new discourse of black nationalism on the stage.But it’s no longer...
Seventeen-hundred scholars contributed to the project over the course of seven years. The only other similar reference source, entitled the Dictionary of American Negro Biography, was published over 25 years ago and included just 626 entries...
...moved between his mobile home and the pit at the Circuit de Catalunya testing session. Those seated over the British driver's quarters, included some men wearing painted faces, Afro wigs, and t-shirts bearing the word's "Hamilton's Family," went even further, loudly calling Hamilton a "negro de mierda" (or "black shit") and other offensive names...
...point. Although Saturday's insults were a new phenomenon for Formula One racing, Spanish soccer has an unfortunate recent history of spectator racism. In 2004, Spanish national team coach Luis Aragonés publicly applied the same "negro de mierda" epithet to Arsenal striker Thierry Henry and Spanish fans bellowed monkey chants at black players in a "friendly" match between Spain and England later that year. FIFA fined the Spanish Football Federation $77,000 on that occasion. In 2006, FC Barcelona's Cameroon-born striker Samuel Eto'o walked off the field in protest after Zaragoza fans repeated the noises...
...whom they prefer, and are thrilled to see an African American vying as a serious contender for the presidency. When Jackson and Sharpton ran, they did so symbolically. They were not genuinely campaigning for the presidency of the U.S. They were instead campaigning to become the HNIC (head Negro in charge) of black America. Obama, by contrast, is genuinely seeking to capture the White House. Most blacks recognize that a realistic effort to win the presidency imposes pragmatic constraints that symbolic candidates are free to ignore...