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...painful because you could feel the vibes from so many people who had been bent and broken and twisted and done in under that kind of structure. They wanted to get rid of the traces of any memories of slavery times." Yet Taj reveals those memories in "Slave Driver," a song written by Bob Marley on Mo Roots...
...Eric Lincoln says that "the entire movement is a kind of reserve fighting corps-ready to wage open war against the entire white community in case of white provocation." But Muhammad had mellowed in recent years. In his last public appearance a year ago, he even declared that the "slave master is no longer hindering us; we're hindering ourselves...
...like to recommend a list of four priorities for eating better," says the recycled Gourmet. "We must concentrate on the emotions, the sciences, the economy and time. Whatever we prepare must look good, taste good, smell good and save money without making the home cook a house slave...
...remnants in an increasingly modern state. The Waimiris and Atroaris understand only too well that modern Brazil, with its population of 100 million, will encroach ever more rapidly on Indian land. They know too that the trans-Amazon highway threatens to be more devastating than any of the slave traders or gold miners who upset their lives in the past...
...grandson of a slave and the composer of seven operas, eight symphonies and close to a hundred other works. At 79, with his name in all the right reference books, William Grant Still could justifiably lay claim to the title "dean of American black composers." Except that he does not choose to. It is not that Still rejects his Negro heritage but that he feels his music has as many roots in Europe as it does in Africa. "If I have an ambition," he says, "it is to be recognized as a composer. Just that...