Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...least my age and hip-hop has constituted a staple in your diet as much as fast food, you'll fondly remember Show and AG's "Represent" from their 1992 Runaway Slave: the posse cut that features the recently deceased Big L (R.I.P.), among others, spewing out some of the illest battle rhymes to date. This head sets it off not giving a damn about anything: "Yo on the mic is Big L the brother who gives flames god/known for sending garbage MC's to the graveyard/I pack a gat not a slingshot/step to this you get an ass-whipping...
...treat. Poulis' rich baritone is always recognizable for its professional quality, and although we know that he is having fun playing the vain Maximillian, a certain seriousness also runs through his performance. However, one of Poulis' best scenes is when he is taken to the New World as a slave, dressed in drag and nearly taken as a concubine by the Governor...
DIED. SADIE DELANY, 109, pioneer educator and co-author, with her late sister Bessie, of the best seller turned Broadway hit Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years; in Mount Vernon, N.Y. Daughter of a slave, she got her master's degree in education at Columbia and became the first black woman to teach home economics in New York City's public schools. "I never let prejudice stop me from what I wanted to do in this life," she said. "Life is short; it's up to you to make it sweet...
...This remarkable new work blends old-fashioned scholarship and storytelling with color videos and stereo sound to bring its subject alive, starting with a video lecture by poet Maya Angelou, who notes that "it takes more than a horrifying transatlantic voyage chained in the filthy hold of a slave ship to erase someone's culture...
...first thing you'll notice is Encarta Africana's upbeat tone. While it faithfully charts tragedies such as the slave trade, race riots in the U.S. and genocide in Rwanda, it never sinks into despair. An essay on Haiti, for example, informs readers not only that the country is the poorest in the Americas but also that it became the world's first black republic when it gained its independence from the French...