Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that the only black member of the U.S. Supreme Court delivered last week. Instead of discussing the work of the court or his judicial philosophy, Thomas spent half an hour lambasting the big, bad bullies in the liberal, pro-affirmative action camp for trying to make him an "intellectual slave...
...survive a legacy like enslavement? It takes Lizzie DuBose 20 years, most of them in an asylum, to recover from the inheritance she receives in 1974: her grandmother Grace's quilt and the diary of her great-great-grandmother Ayo, a slave. "I come from a long line of forever people," reads one entry. "We back and gone and back again." Ayo's restless spirit twice returns, once with enough violence to drive Grace from her family, and again during Lizzie's teenage years. This leads to convoluted identity politics, for the dead Grace also inhabits Lizzie's body. Soon...
...over the world. Antonia Cottrell Martin, a co-founder of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society in Washington, is a fourth-generation descendant of pioneers who drove cattle to California during the Gold Rush. She advises using a variety of documents, explaining that "a South Carolina Dutch slave owner's documents can help locate black cousins in the Netherlands. Census records might find a Chinese ancestor in Mississippi or one born in Canada, Madagascar, New Zealand or, of course, the Caribbean." Finding the right name provides many clues. To students in his genealogy classes at Chicago State University, Tony...
...stars, food and music aplenty at the premiere of The Farm: Angola, USA, something was missing: none of the featured players were able to attend. Incarceration will do that to you. But the celebs who saw the film, shot entirely in America's largest prison (situated on a former slave plantation in Louisiana), gushed with praise. "Where can I get a subscription to the Angolite?" asked Anne Heche about the prison's magazine. Warden BURL CAIN, left, gave the film crew unprecedented access to all areas of his Big House, and the film's director, Jonathan Stack, found so much...
...German moviemaker Fritz Lang released Metropolis, the idea for which came to him when he first saw, from shipboard, the glaring lights and tall buildings of Manhattan. (The film became a favorite of Hitler's.) Set in the year 2000, Metropolis shows plutocrats living in idle pleasure while workers slave away underground until a spectacular rebellion sets them free. This was reminiscent of H.G. Wells' 1895 dystopian fantasy, The Time Machine, in which a subhuman race called the Morlocks lives underground and emerges to devour the humans who live above...