Word: reconstructionism
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Younger than the painters and writers who took part in the Harlem Renaissance of the '20s, Lawrence was also at an angle to them: he was not interested in the kind of idealized, fake-primitive images of blacks -- the Noble Negroes in Art Deco drag -- that others tended to produce...
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was born an African American in 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and died an American African 95 years later in Accra, Ghana. His lifetime included two Johnson Administrations (Andrew's and Lyndon's) and stretched from the betrayal of Reconstruction to the unfinished dream of...
City Councillor Alice K. Wolf spoke at the potluck dinner in celebration of the school's reconstruction. Principal Eva J. Paddock led the crowd of approximately 200 in three rousing rounds of "Hip-hip hooray!"
The reconstruction of the school follows several years of sometimes heated debate about renovation plans and proposals, which have included raising the building's height. The final blueprints outline a more modernized version of the original two-story building.
In Newport Beach, California, the Biehl family has been deluged with faxes and telephone calls from friends and advisers in different schools, from the White House, from Namibia, from Biehl's South African friends. In these she is repeatedly referred to as a "sister." The loving condolences are inspiring, says...