Word: negroness
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...Dennis ("Oil Can") Boyd's locker was a portrait of Satchel Paige wearing his Negro Leagues Kansas City Monarchs uniform. Over the 39 years they have been allowed to win World Series' games, six black pitchers have done it: Joe Black of Brooklyn, Bob Gibson of St. Louis, Jim ("Mudcat") Grant of Minnesota, John Wyatt of Boston, John ("Blue Moon") Odom of Oakland and Grant Jackson of Pittsburgh. Before the third game, when the Mets appeared ready to be vanquished if not swept in Boston, Boyd began to imagine himself in the baggy flannels of another day. By the time...
Lenny and Felicia are genuises....They are at the cutting edge of Radical Chic. Obviously, if you are giving a party for the Black Panthers, as Lenny and Felicia are this evening...well then obviously you cannot have a Negro butler and maid, Claude and Maude, in uniform, circulating the living room, the library, and the main hall serving drinks and canapes. One simply cannot see this moment...
...University does not divest by 1994, the Endowment will donate its funds to Amnesty International and the United Negro College Fund. Until that time, the Endowment monies will be invested in the Calvert Fund, a money-market account with no investments in South Africa-related companies...
What was lost amid the many citations of the 1958 sermon--in which Falwell said "the true negro doesn't want integration" and that "the hand of Moscow" could be seen behind the Supreme Court's landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision--was the disturbing fact that most of those who listen to Falwell's Old Time Gospel Hour don't see past the lavish tabernacle and the choir's shimmering white robes...
...critics but (2) that the welfare state, in its present form, is too constricted to address adequately the demands of a truly humane civilization. As for my reported call for "revolutionary" change, I mentioned the word revolutionary in the context of quoting the following statement by Bayard Rustin: "The Negro's struggle for equality in America is essentially revolutionary. While most negroes...unquestionably seek only to enjoy the fruits of American society as it now exists, their quest cannot objectively be satisfied within the framework of existing political and economic relations...