Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Seventy-seven percent say that "more blacks being admitted to college" has given them a great deal of hope; 70% cite "new kinds of jobs opening up for blacks" as a major cause of optimism; 63% see "great hope" in what they believe is the "rising racial pride among black people"; and 63% observe the same in the "increase in black-owned businesses...
...hundreds of U.S. colleges. Some courses emphasize a traditional, scholarly approach to such subjects as Africa in world politics. Others are action-oriented, designed to train young blacks for work in the ghettos. Although the results vary widely, the general idea is to foster a sense of black pride and roots that young blacks now consider essential to other kinds of learning...
...Dino are pragmatically nonviolent. "The Panthers want a revolutionary war," says Dino, "but that ain't hip. The white man got over the black man by politics, and that's the only way we'll get back at them. Why commit suicide?" But the black-pride movement has given them and many other young blacks an assertive sense of their own worth. "If I walked into a building with white people three years ago," says Dino, "I hung my head down. No more! Now people sense that and don't mess with...
...Chiefs, champions of the rival American Football League, to trounce the N.F.L.'s Minnesota Vikings. His reasons transcended league allegiance. Hill is black; the Chiefs are the first team in the history of major league football with more black players than white. It was a source of great pride to Hill that the Chiefs, 13-point underdogs, soundly walloped the Vikings, 23 to 7, to become the new world champions...
Into the Street. Some 20 other muralists, with encouragement and materials supplied by the city of Boston, have splashed their pride and sometimes anger on public walls. They are not subtle, nor are they meant to be. Among the most skilled is Charles Milles' mural painted on a handball wall in Orchard Park, in the primarily black Roxbury neighborhood. It proudly depicts black aspirations in dance, theater and music-and brings a spot of color to an otherwise dismal plavground...