Word: rev
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...California Civil Rights Initiative. A few weeks before Election Day, its supporters even considered running television advertisements featuring Martin Luther King Jr. in a perverse attempt to bolster public opinion in favor of it. The TV ads were scuttled when the King estate threatened legal action and the Rev. Jesse Jackson began to effectively demonstrate that King had been an early proponent of affirmative action, though the particular term was not popularized in his lifetime...
Gore represents the most recent addition to the Kerry campaign's list of high-profile supporters, which have included Secretary of Education Richard Riley and the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, both of whom have spoken on Kerry's behalf in recent months...
...highlight of the weekend was yesterday's annual address by the Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Plummer professor of Christian morals and minister in the Memorial Church. In a speech titled "After the Novelty, Before the Facts: What Parents Need to Know and Don't," Gomes spoke to a full Science Center B about the changes students go through when they enter college...
...community when she completely dropped financial contributions to more than 50 charitable foundations and organizations that her husband had supported, including the N.A.A.C.P., the Abyssinian Baptist Church, the Boys Choir of Harlem, the Urban League and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Only a last-minute call from the Rev. Jesse Jackson's wife Jackie spared Jackson's "rainbow coalition." Lewis, who points out that she also cut off new donations to Harvard, public television and the Girl Scouts, says the decision to "suspend" the gifts was business, not personal. The racial identity of the company is a nonissue...
...shoulder injury. He segued into a quieter career, acting. In January he will star in Lawless, a new private-detective series set in South Beach. Says he: "I am very much an extrovert when it comes to being in the spotlight. I need that attention to kind of rev my motor...