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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...
...This has to remain a national issue in addition to a state issue," said Toni Troop, a vice president for the Boston chapter of NOW. "From what we saw last April we don't want to be at the point where anti-abortion folks have divided up geographically...
Alpert and Moss started the company with a $200 investment 27 years ago in the garage of the trumpeter's home in suburban Los Angeles. A&M, with sales of $300 million last year, has a stable of recording stars that includes Janet Jackson, Suzanne Vega, Toni Childs and Sting. Says Alpert, 54, who will continue to help run A&M after the merger is completed: "We'll have more visibility and more muscle...
...Toni Morrison speaks about relations between the races, violence in the schools and teenage mothers...
...week after the first protest, Princeton's creative writing faculty, including Joyce Carol Oates and Toni Morrison, held a reading of passages from Rushdie's book...