Word: racists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...school teacher, assigned her class a book called Nappy Hair, about a little girl's proud acceptance of her coily mane, in order to bolster the self-esteem of her black and Latino charges. But some parents, after seeing only a few photocopied pages, assumed the book was a racist put-down and essentially ran Sherman out of the school. Most New Yorkers were torn between amazement at the brouhaha and pity for the children, who have lost a good teacher. But for Trevelyn Jones, book-review editor of the School Library Journal, the real surprise was that the book...
...opportunities for students to work with professional directors and choreographers, I think it unnecessary to call an end to a wonderfully unique tradition at Harvard in order to do so. In no way do I agree with the statement that the script, casting or production of the HPT is "racist" or "homophobic...
...glory days of the civil rights movement, activists boasted that they would not swim in the mainstream because it was too polluted. These old strictures, to be sure, were a self-imposed double standard rooted in the gloomy conviction that blacks would never get a fair shake from racist America. But unfair as they were, the precepts had the salutary effect of encouraging blacks both to do their best and keep to the moral high ground...
Court TV and the O.J. Simpson trial made household names of Marcia Clark, Johnnie Cochran and Christopher Darden. We followed the Simpson case from its beginnings for unknown reasons--perhaps it was the murder, the celebrity, the racist conspiracy theories, the still-shocking taboo of an interracial marriage--and we followed the lawyers as well...
...group calling itself the Brothers United for Action at the University of Rhode Island (URI) demanded last week that the editors of the campus newspaper resign, complaining that an editorial cartoon published last Wednesday was racist...