Word: shabaka
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...black rap star's clothing chain called Niggaz. (The chain, the narration explains, is "the value-priced version of his high-end store, Uppity Niggaz, in Beverly Hills.") One character argues that the store empowers black people by taking back a word from white racists. Eddie (Barry Shabaka Henley, reprising Cedric's character) scoffs that young people know the term from rap videos, while he knows it from Klan rallies, at which, incidentally, "there wasn't no hot young things shakin' it like a Polaroid." When it turns out the Niggaz franchise is owned by a salt-of-the-earth...
...students will participate in workshops and panels led by such internationally renowned authorities on the death penalty as Nomgcobo Sangweni, a former South African political prisoner who is the recipient of a United Nations Scholarship, and Shabaka Sundiati Waqlimi, who was found innocent after having spent thirteen years on death row in Florida on the charges of murder and rape...
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