Word: raced
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...takes place on one very hot day at Sal's Famous Pizzaria in Bedford Stuyvesant, a Black neighborhood in Brooklyn where the general undercurrent of class and race resentment is kept under pressure by the heat until it explodes in violence...
Prior to desegregation and the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Blacks themselves claimed a meritocracy was all they expected from society--an equal chance. Affirmative action in many ways matches many of the pre-1960s policies: it systematically rewards some and discriminates against others on the basis of race...
Those words had a hollow ring in the state of Michoacan, where the results of the state legislature's race -- another of the five state elections held last week -- remain hotly contested by Cuauhtemoc Cardenas and his Democratic Revolutionary Party (P.R.D.). The old pattern of fraud and stolen elections seemed to be reasserting itself as the P.R.I. claimed to have won ten of the 18 electoral districts while the P.R.D., alleging widespread irregularity, insisted that it had carried 15 districts. At a press conference on election day, Cardenas accused the P.R.I. of cheating by changing the location of the casillas...
SCIENCE: Europe aims to win a physics race...
Spike Lee, whose films intentionally raise social and political questions, has made this summer's most controversial movie, Do the Right Thing, about race relations in a hot New York City neighborhood. His movies don't just aim to please; they expose stereotypes and vent his anger...