Word: toni
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...room: David Baerwald and David Ricketts, trying to come up with an appropriate follow-up to Boomtown. Pressure enough right there; not only the normal, friendly collaborative pressure but the burden of trying to equal or even top one of the best albums of the 1980s. In the bedroom: Toni Childs, who was living with Ricketts and laboring over her own lyrics besides...
Afro-American scholars should study how American literature deals with the Black experience, Pulitzer Prize winning author Toni Morrison said Wednesday...
Elsewhere there have been some unlikely victories for old-fashioned activism. Few could have imagined that Toni Luckett, a lesbian and an Afro- American studies major with spiked hair and a flair for quoting Malcolm X, could build a minority coalition and get elected student-body president at the University of Texas. Long a stronghold of white frat men, the university had no experience with firebrands. Luckett is changing all that. Preaching confrontation, Luckett has staged rallies that have put the university on notice that recent racial incidents cannot go unpunished. "The issues have been burning for years," she says...
...NOTEBOOK:After the monthlong lockout delayed openers by a week, the start of the season was pushed back an extra 18 minutes because of pregame festivities. Toni Giamatti, widow of former commissioner Bart Giamatti, threw out the ceremonial first ball...
Thus Crouch dismisses black filmmaker Spike Lee as a "middle-class would-be street Negro." He puts down Toni Morrison's moving novel Beloved as no more than an effort "to enter American slavery into the big-time martyr ratings contest." He castigates James Baldwin for undermining the moral basis of the civil rights movement with essays that "transformed white America into Big Daddy and the Negro movement into an obnoxious, pouting adolescent demanding the car keys...