Word: pan-african
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When two dozen student protesters seized Massachusetts Hall at dawn on April 20, 1972 and began a 153-hour seige, it was the climax of events that started in August and escalated as the Pan-African Liberation Committee (PALC) pushed and pulled against President Derek C. Bok's new administration...
...Town. The conviction concludes a trial that dragged on for months because witnesses to the murder weren't forthcoming at first. But after they testified, "there was really no doubt in anybody's mind about the verdict," says TIME Cape Town reporter Peter Hawthorne. While members of the militant Pan-African Congress, who supported the killers, are expected to stage a protest, there won't be any major riots, Hawthorne says...
...days, 34 Black members of the Pan-African Liberation Movement stage a takeover of Mass. Hall. The movement became the starting point for what would later become the divestment movement...
This religion had a deep impact on his music. For those outside its mysteries, Rastafari seemed to combine Old Testament mysticism and a kind of pan-African call to arms with a liberal indulgence in sacramental ganja, or pot. Ganja has a fearful potency, but it isn't as strong as Marley's music. Rastafari remained arcane to most off-islanders, but Marley's devotion to it produced the last great soul music...
Students, he says, ask him to discuss the Pan-African thinkers who believed an international racial alliance was the only way to solve the problems of American blacks and Africans...