Word: robinsons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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James played a modernized, slightly souped-up version of Johnson's Delta slide-guitar style and sang with a five-alarm urgency that defied dampening. "The crying guitar and the screaming voice" are what Bobby Robinson called it, but that was only the foundation of James' style, which, as amply represented here, shows plenty of range. Only the intensity never varies. Talk to Me Baby has a rock overlay; Bobby's Rock spins along with blues underpinnings driving a twangy, near countrified, Duane Eddy-style beat; I Believe makes you hear the grit under the guitar strings, the true Delta...
...part by international trade sanctions adopted by the U.S. government because of relentless pressure from African Americans led by TransAfrica, a lobbying group based in Washington. There are some signs that this victory may be ushering in a new, more mature relationship between African Americans and Africa. Randall Robinson, TransAfrica's executive director, is one of the orchestrators of this welcome change. He notes with justifiable pride that the imposition of sanctions on South Africa marked the first time black Americans significantly changed U.S. foreign policy. Doing so instilled a new confidence in African Americans about their ability to bring...
Though it has been little noticed by the press, Robinson and like-minded black politicians and businessmen have been gradually doing away with the double standard that condemned oppression by South Africa's white regime while ignoring oppression elsewhere on the continent. As long ago as 1990, a group including Robinson, Jesse Jackson, Coretta Scott King and several black elected officials and labor leaders issued a statement calling for an end to the "violence and tyranny" inflicted by Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi's one-party government. Robinson has since repeated the criticism in appearances before U.S. congressional committees, adding...
...possession of his faculties and desirous of retaining them would dare drive down the lane into territory defended by Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing and Karl Malone. Jordan and his Chicago Bulls teammate Scottie Pippen are tenacious open-court defenders. Then too there are Clyde Drexler and the Admiral, David Robinson. Twelfth man Christian Laettner will probably get a great view of all this talent mostly from the bench...
...Mary Robinson's confidence recharges her country's spirit...