Word: rebirth
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EVEN IF THE NEED FOR JOURNALISTIC DETACHMENT did not preclude my participation, I would not join the Million Man March this week in Washington. That's not because I disagree with the march's stated purpose of inspiring a moral and spiritual rebirth among African American men; to the contrary, I applaud it. But however noble the cause, I will not rally behind any banner hoisted by the march's main organizers, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. As Mary Frances Berry, chairperson of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, declared in a letter...
...other hand, the coalition which was PUCC hailed a rebirth of student activism. To promote "student self-advocacy," it promised such conveniences as transportation to and publicity of demonstrations as well as excesses such as phone banks directly connected to Washington...
...JOLTING TWISTS AND TURNS IN THE SIMPSON trial, none was more startling than the defendant's rebirth as a black man. What we tend to forget is that before June 12, 1994, the Juice was no hero to African Americans. His postfootball success was largely due to his ability to make whites comfortable as he played golf with ceos at country clubs from which other blacks were excluded or shucked and jived his way through goofy movies like some modern Stepin Fetchit. Never one to speak out about civil rights, he seemed to shed his racial identity, crossing over into...
...while." But when it comes to running a conglomerate, is bigger better? Or is less more? Americans could be forgiven if they were confused by last week's economics lesson. First they witnessed the three-way breakup of AT&T, and then, just 48 hours later, the rebirth of Time Warner as the world's largest media company with its agreement to buy Turner Broadcasting. To the old but continuing question, "What's happening to the big old phone company I grew up with?" is added, "Will I now get all my news and entertainment from only a couple...
...spiritual rebirth triggered a musical awakening as well. Though he played admirably with Davis, Dizzy Gillespie and other bebop pioneers, Coltrane's no-holds-barred style did not blossom until he recorded his own albums in the late '50s and early '60s. A new boxed set, The Heavyweight Champion: The Complete Atlantic Recordings of John Coltrane, captures this fertile period, collecting tracks from 10 previously released albums, along with a full CD of rehearsals and outtakes from his first important album, Giant Steps...