Word: voicelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...candidates to flaunt their party stripes. On one side the Republican mayor vows to protect society from the "violent crazies" (as a Daily News headline called them) walking the streets, while across the aisle the Democratic First Lady scores points with the sit-in crowd by boldly defending a voiceless dependent population. Now if only Cuomo can anticipate their next issue...
...music may be undergoing just such a transformation. In truth, hip hop has certainly had constitutive elements: emceeing, deejaying, breakdancing and grafitti art. Yet as a movement, hip hop has traversed more than 20 years since a particular voiceless community became local cultural creators. At the end of the '90s the industry of hip hop is a multi-billion dollar venture, one that reaches countless individuals in communites all over the place through a diversity of media. The stereotype of an East/West coast dichotomy is not only misplaced, it is further subverted by the fact that there...
Raised in Trenton, N.J., then a segregated town, Higginbotham pursued a career in law because of his first-hand experience with injustice. The son of a cleaning woman and a laborer, he often told personal stories of his rise through racial injustice in his lectures as lessons of how "voiceless and forgotten people" could overcome obstacles...
...Despite his individual merits andaccomplishments, he never hesitated to lend a handto the poor, the voiceless, the powerless and thedowntrodden," he said...
...reads like the typical Barnicle columns Dartboard used to know and love: equal parts schmaltz, anger and righteous indignation. But Barnicle, the self-styled fighter for the downtrodden and voiceless, doesn't seem to realize he was in the wrong. In one rationalization of his behavior, he writes, "...reconstruction dialogue in a 1995 column is a clear failure to abide by today's standards. It was not always so but is now." The implication is that this 25-year veteran of the Metro page was taken by surprise by suddenly stricter standards. He also implies that the greater good accomplished...