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...black history while promoting awareness of significant black historical, figures. Although this idea has, to some extent, evolved into thinly veiled self-esteem therapy for blacks and whites alike, such paeans to equality are not entirely without benefit. These hymns sing the praises of Martin Luther King, Jackie Robinson, Rosa Parks, and others--black Americans whose contributions to the successes of modern blacks are undeniable...
...parties, no matter how spirited, always come to an end, and by 1992, Mann had quit both drugs and Patrick and plunged into her studies in anthropology at a college in Santa Rosa, Calif. Mann says it was during this sober period that, as one last favor to her old sweetheart, she made a mistake she will forever regret. She mailed Patrick 30 sheets of LSD that she had bought from a local dealer. "I know people think, 'Here's this middle-class white girl who had everything going for her, and she screwed...
...Lissitzky, take up Soviet propaganda, Hitler and Weimar politics with a style that anticipates, but far from outshines, contemporary artists like Barbara Kruger. Their montages are busy, uninviting, but important. Heartfield's One must have a special disposition toward suicide. It illustrates the murder of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxembourg by the Freikorps--an event which put an end to any realistic hopes for a Communist revolution in the Weimar Republic. Heartfield lays Liebknecht's mordant head among a sea of German newspaper clippings from anti-Communist papers, subtly picturing the Freikorps in one corner. The effect...
...answers to a question on race, see page 125 of Book: "Rosa Parks did not sit on that bus so that I could put something in front of the word American." John F. Kennedy reigns in Chapter 13; he also appeared in her speech about the importance of the individual. "Prove to me it is not mine," she responded to a question of how to feel that America belongs...
...Rosa Parks didn't sit on that Goddamned bus soI could hyphenate who I am," she said...