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These melanist notions and other extremes of Afrocentrism are discomforting to many black educators. John Warfield, who until recently headed the African- American Studies Center at the University of Texas at Austin, calls the melanist theory "a difficult concept to support scientifically" and feels that Afrocentrism is "a romanticizing of Africa that should give everyone pause." But he urges understanding of a form of black nationalism that "waxes and wanes" with the sense of discontent among U.S. blacks. He calls it "a response reflective of some of the destitution in the black community...
During the 1936 constitutional crisis over the engagement of King Edward VIII -- later the Duke of Windsor -- and American divorce Wallis Warfield, Winston Churchill growled, "Why shouldn't the King be allowed to marry his cutie?" Playwright Noel Coward shot back, "Because England doesn't wish for a Queen Cutie." Today many Britons want a taste of soap opera in their royalty. Sarah Ferguson, Duchess Cutie, proved very suitable -- if only temporarily -- for that...
Milestones: Perspectives on Careers of African-American Performing Artists--performance and panel discussion with William Warfield and Mel Tomlinson presented by the Boston Conservatory. African-American Meeting House, 8 Smith Court, Boston. Free. For more information, call...
...women operating outside the boundaries that are prescribed for them, misbehaving and enjoying themselves," she says. Nor does she take kindly to the criticism that the movie bashes men. "I certainly don't hate men," says Khouri, who celebrates her first year of marriage to writer and producer David Warfield this month. "Most guys don't relate to the truck driver or the rapist ((in Thelma & Louise)), and if they do, their problems are bigger than this movie...
Calling President Bush and his administration "masters of propaganda" and an "enemy" of the American people, Warfield said he believed that Bush "has planned this all along...