Word: urbanity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Instead, Shelemay, who teaches courses on African music and the musical life of urban areas says she "will sing only when the recording does not work...
This semester, Shelemay is teaching an undergraduate seminar on urban ethnomusicology, focusing on the music of Boston...
Critical for blacks and whites alike. "I think this may have been the largest family-values rally in the history of America," says Hugh Price, president of the National Urban League. "The proof will be whether it translates into action back home.'' The action will have to be smart and sustained to make any difference to the intertwined predicaments of prejudice and the lagging economic performance of blacks. Those facts are complicated now as never before by the economic squeeze on people of all races in America. It makes many whites more impatient with black demands and provides an opening...
...Clinton Administration, senior officials have been urging the President to lay out a detailed urban strategy soon. TIME has learned that White House economic adviser Laura Tyson sent a confidential memo last week to all Cabinet Secretaries and top White House advisers, directing them to submit by Oct. 23 a brief summary of one policy they think would improve the economic conditions of people living in poor urban areas. In Congress, six members asked the President to appoint a commission on race relations, an idea to which the White House has responded coolly...
...wrap our feet in when we're sick or to keep us warm at night. And after we're done gutting the Superfund program, we'll pay $10 per day for toxic waste site cleanup. No, we won't offer medical insurance, but then again, after we decimate urban social services, you probably won't be able to find a hospital in your neighborhood anyway...