Word: pave
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...Within a week he collided head on with racism. His immediate response was to flee the country that so degraded people of color, but then his inner resilience overpowered him with a sense of mission, and he stayed to redeem the dignity of the racially exploited, to pave the way for the liberation of the colonized the world over and to develop a blueprint for a new social order...
...Biracial students share the experience of growing up mixed, and my hope is that HAPA will pave the way for a more inclusive, multiracial group because, in many ways, I feel that I share more with another biracial student, even if their mix is not the same as mine, than I do with another white or Asian-American student," Weisinger wrote in an e-mail message. "I feel that if you're half-Asian/half-Caucasian, the expectation is that you'll simply join an organization that reflects your Asian half, and if your other half is a different minority...
...Huma wishes to run from a heart broken by her cocaine-snorting junkie girlfriend, and Sister Rosa must hide from the order and her parents. Yet in this situation, four women learn that the kindness of strangers and the spontaneous solidarity of women is no fallacy. Acting and repression pave the way for a confrontation with reality; Lola greets the viewer in the end, debilitated with AIDS, and the melodrama is complete...
...known to his many fans mainly as a salsa singer, and almost all his songs have been recorded in Spanish. His last album, Contra la Corriente (RMM), was a work of brilliance: it made TIME's list of the Top 10 pop albums of 1997, and it also helped pave the way for this year's mainstream media recognition of a new generation of Latin pop stars...
Rock doesn't see himself as a spokesperson or a leader, but nonetheless he's trying to pave the way for the next generation of comics. He's funding the Illtop Journal, a college humor magazine patterned after the Harvard Lampoon that will be based at Howard University in Washington. The Illtop Journal is set to start publication this fall. "In his various travels Chris has been frustrated by the lack of comedy writers of color," says Stepsun Records head Bill Stephney, an adviser on the journal. "So this is the best way to address that. He also noticed that...