Word: revolutionize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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However, just as it is wrong for Cleaver to attempt to appropriate King's memory to justify her militant past, it would also be wrong to denude King's legacy of its specifically black heritage and circumstances. At a service in his memory, of all occasions, King's legacy should...
Making a questionable connection, Cleaver claimed that King's undefined usage of the word "revolutionary" meant that he supported the Black Panther Party's program of political revolution.
But the true revolution King sought was a change in American racial attitudes, one that would allow black Americans the same opportunities as whites. King never advocated anything close to the Black Panthers' violent program of political revolution.
In unimpeded conversations with ordinary Cubans, Drummond found widespread opposition to the U.S. embargo ? although few expect the Pope to get it lifted. Most, however, believed the visit would boost Castro: "People on the streets seem to be very much in favor of the revolution," she says. "They have many...
Judging by the pace at which they're working, both Gordimer and Walcott appear to be surviving the Nobel. Gordimer's new novel, The House Gun, which comes out this month, is a tense postapartheid family drama as vital as anything she has ever written. The protagonists are a white...