Word: racially
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unfortunately, the two specified not only misrepresent Cultural Rhythms, but they create racial tension and distrust among students who may use The Crimson as their only source of information. Again we remind you that this is an undergraduate student program that is organized by students of many races and cultures. We appeal to you to offer positive support for the hard work of these students and to their dedication to improving intercultural and race relations. NANA E. COLEMAN...
...Unfortunately, the two specified not only misrepresent Cultural Rhythms, but they create racial tension and distrust among students who may use The Crimson as their only source of information. Again we remind you that this is an undergraduate student program that is organized by students of many races and cultures. We appeal to you to offer positive support for the hard work of these students and to their dedication to improving intercultural and race relations...
Nevertheless, the value of Black History Month is considerable. The name itself is revealing: not African-American History Month, but Black History Month; not an identity rooted in African culture, but in a distinctly American experience. However superficially, such a name suggests that any racial differences, and all racism, runs only skin deep. Indeed, this is the promise of Black History Month: for all its silly therapeutic excess, it promotes a black pride consonant with that of the larger American community within which, for better or worse, black Americans must live and contribute as citizens...
...Jasper is located in a part of eastern Texas with a horrible history of racial strife,? Gwynne says, but the community has worked long and hard ?to keep the lines of communication open? between the races. White and black churches have stayed in touch with each other and the schools have provided an additional avenue for dialogue. The contacts have helped build ?a relatively enlightened? attitude on race relations, says Gwynne. No one will really ever know what drove King to his madness, but the maintenance of the dialogue is one of the important factors that helped Jasper maintain...
Raised in Trenton, N.J., then a segregated town, Higginbotham pursued a career in law because of his first-hand experience with injustice. The son of a cleaning woman and a laborer, he often told personal stories of his rise through racial injustice in his lectures as lessons of how "voiceless and forgotten people" could overcome obstacles...