Word: rayfield
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while more records are being made, black rockers say they still have a < hard time getting radio programmers -- white and black -- to play their music. "Radio is now the stumbling block," says Nuumi Rayfield Jarvis, founder of the Los Angeles chapter of the Black Rock Coalition, a national network of 50 bands that organized seven years ago to promote black rock. Because it ranges from jazz fusion to thrash metal, black rock doesn't fit neatly into any of the traditional grooves that determine how music is marketed. Executives who program for traditional rock stations fret that the white teens...
...this contention was born a set of arguments that have become politically correct wisdom on campus and in academic circles. This view holds that rape is a symbol of women's vulnerability to male institutions and attitudes. "It's sociopolitical," insists Gina Rayfield, a New Jersey psychologist. "In our culture men hold the power, politically, economically. They're socialized not to see women as equals...