Word: urbanity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...James Demus, pastor of the Park Manor Christian Church on Chicago's South Side, joined Chicago's Million Man March steering committee. Says he of Farrakhan's followers: "I admire their work in cleaning up drugs; I admire their sense of cleanliness and frugal spending." He adds the urban truism, "In this neighborhood, the word is you don't mess with the Muslims...
During a speech yesterday at the Graduate School of Design, Henry Cisneros, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) called for safe, inexpensive middle-class housing developments and less governmental involvement in building...
...film has a broad scope, addressing skin-tone prejudice, sexism within the black community, family relationships, civil rights movements, gangs, the Black Panthers, perceptions of homosexuality, the relationship of hair and fashion to Black self-definition, Afrocentrism, life in the urban ghetto, etc. While each of these subjects is fascinating in and of itself, the sheer number of issues is overwhelming. And with all of this crammed into an hour and twenty minutes, all subjects are obviously not addressed evenly...
...1920s the Scopes trial enacted the collision between the moral universe of older, agricultural America, where the Bible held authority, and the new urban, secular-humanist nation wherein H.L. Mencken was God. The Sacco-Vanzetti trial stirred up all of America's agitations about immigration, anarchy and the Red Menace...
...Simpson. An acquittal in the Simpson case will give other defendants false hopes that their cases can be beat as well. As a white man with a healthy skepticism of authority, I was nevertheless stunned that a Mark Fuhrman could have remained so long on a prestigious, presumably professional urban police force. Because no future juror who has heard the Fuhrman tapes will soon forget them, the damage wrought by the Simpson trial will be the reluctance of jurors, black and white, to trust the word of white officials who gather or present evidence against black defendants. Even meritorious prosecutions...