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PERFORMER: TONY TONI TONE...
...Ellison argued, black women have been inaudible. Doubly oppressed by racism and sexism, they have often gone unheard as male civil rights leaders did the talking for their race and white feminists did the talking for their sex. In recent years a growing chorus of black female writers like Toni Morrison and Alice Walker has begun to direct a passionate blast against male chauvinists on both sides of the color line. But there has seldom been an indictment of the self-absorption and self-delusion of the corporate male, both white and black, as stinging -- or hilarious -- as Jill Nelson...
Close your eyes and listen to Tony Toni Tone's graceful new CD and you may think you're hearing one of those sidewalk sale records. The Tonyies are lead singer and bassist Raphael Wiggins, his guitarist brother D'wayne Wiggins, and their cousin, drummer Timothy Christian Riley. They're all in their mid-20s, and this CD is an R.-and-B. tribute to the music they grew up with. My Ex- Girlfriend borrows the bridge from Sly and the Family Stone's 1968 song M'Lady. As another cut fades, Raphael sings, "Last night a D.J. saved...
...West has nurtured what even its rivals concede is the best program of its kind in the nation. Significantly, the university, where West got his doctorate, is within broadcast range of New York City's WBLS-FM, West's favorite soul-music station. The department includes Pulitzer-prizewinning novelist Toni Morrison and biographer Arnold Rampersad...
With their attack spearheaded by Jamie Hare, who scored three times in two minutes, and by Toni Felini, who chipped in two goals and two assists, the Wildcats roared back to within five goals...