Word: rioted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...advocated more federal intervention. "There will always be a riot around the corner until the system is changed," Sharpton said. "We need to spell out what is excessive force...
Although his part is small, Bryan Van Gorder proves memorable as Mike's "Mum." The mother dreams of a life of art and manners as an escape from her marriage. Richard Nash as the bitter husband provides the play's best moment with his demonstration of a 1939 riot using his lunch. As he spews hatred for the Jews he marched against, he spews cupcake, strawberry jam, and hot cross buns all over the stage and the audience...
...Though she was only an innocent and terrified bystander during the upheaval, 25 years later it still affects her life and the lives of her children. What sets Katherine apart from most low-income blacks is that a long odyssey she began amid the smoke and flames of the riot will soon reach a triumphant conclusion. She owes her good fortune to a combination of factors that are in short supply in the inner city: strong family ties; steady work, although for low wages; and help from both the government and innovative community organizations. Without any one of those...
Before the riot, the poor could at least gain a toehold in neighborhoods like the one at 14th and U streets in Northwest Washington, where the violence began. Though the district had faded badly from its heyday in the 1940s, when it ranked among the most vibrant black communities in the nation, it still had movie theaters, nightclubs and scores of thriving businesses. True, schools were slipping, crime was getting worse and some of the more affluent residents had moved away. But most of the area's hardworking families had no intention of abandoning one of the few relatively decent...
Businessmen brave or foolhardy enough to try rebuilding in the riot corridors met with one failure after another. Even before the rubble was cleared away, John Snipes opened a custom-shirt shop on U Street to cater to snappy dressers in the neighborhood. It quickly faded in the area's dreary economic climate. "You couldn't get insurance. You couldn't get credit. You just couldn't get anything," says Snipes. "You'd look around and see all these empty buildings, all this devastation and that put a damper on us." Since then, Snipes has tried two other enterprises...