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...Melvin Van Peebles' 1971 Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song--an ode to a wronged black man on the run from the cops--introduced the lead character as a "baadasssss nigger coming back to collect some dues!" And that "nigger" in the film, as Van Peebles tells it, snapped the streak of "liberal, sort of nice movies where we always ended up dead...
...Silver Streak, Pryor and Gene Wilder's comedic take on The Defiant Ones. In the penultimate moment, Pryor's character, camouflaged as a lowly train porter, flips a gat on the uppity white villain, demanding to know, in a brilliant combination of anger and comic timing, "Who you callin' nigger?" Yeah. That was all of us. That was all of black America wanting to know from any race baiter as we moved through the Establishment: Excuse me, who exactly are you calling nigger...
...developing road toughness,” coach Frank Sullivan said. “Hopefully that helps that confidence factor in the guys.” The Crimson will need that road savvy tomorrow to get past the Raiders (3-2), a team that is riding a three-game winning streak of its own. Recently, both teams have been shooting in improved accuracy, a fact that could turn the contest into an offensive duel. In the second half of its last outing, a win over Quinnipiac, Colgate caught fire, shooting 63 percent from the floor, up from its season average...
...That lone win merely came against the No. 1 ranked team in the country and could prove to be the upset of the season in collegiate women’s hockey. One week ago, the Bulldogs shut out Wisconsin, 2-0, snapping the Badgers’ 26-game unbeaten streak...
...Brian’s screen, and a chance to step up and hit a three to tie the game. Those six [missed] threes before weren’t really going through my mind.” REVERSED FIRST The Crimson’s victory broke an 11-game losing streak in games where the team trailed at halftime, dating back to last season. Harvard was down 37-34 after a first half in which it shot just 39 percent from the floor, including a dismal 0-of-9 from three. The Crimson stopped the trend thanks in part...