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...lackluster sequel to Get Shorty—both based on titular novels written by Elmore Leonard—orbits around the galaxy of popular stars clustered by production company MGM. It would seem that they have strategically selected performers to appeal to the broadest range of audiences. For every racial and social minority—aging rockers, young R&B and rap fans, 70s movie fans, gay men, WWF fans/closeted gay men—there are a few good men towards whom they can gravitate. The problem with that strategy is the movie MGM saddled with that burden?...
...innocuous note signed “with compliments” should have mentioned that in fact, Wiener has very few compliments for The Crimson. More accurately, Wiener excoriates The Crimson’s coverage of a 1988 campus controversy that erupted when several African-American students leveled charges of racial insensitivity against Winthrop Professor of History Stephan A. Thernstrom...
...February 1988, several students from Thernstrom’s fall semester core course Historical Studies A-25, “The Peopling of America,” accused the professor of displaying “racial insensitivity” in the class. One African-American student, Wendi Grantham ’89 (who in her subsequent career as an actress appeared on HBO’s “The Wire” and NBC’s “Homicide: Life on the Streets”), told Wiener that she objected to Thernstrom’s syllabus, which...
...ideas that govern public policy. However, they are not conversant in hip hop dialogue and are not familiar with its cultural dimensions (partly as a result of not being raised in hip hop culture). Hip hop artists serve as spokespersons of the urban generation, often exposing the effects of racial inequality and social injustice on the black experience. Yet, most artists are largely divorced from black history and are not in conversation with the most innovative thinkers of our time. Black politicians and entrepreneurs have the ability to institutionalize hip hop through political summits, record labels, fashion lines, magazines...
...cannot accurately and fully report on incidents ranging from racial profiling to suicide to sexual assault without these records,” Schuker wrote...