Word: white
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...case would have been investigated by the police very differently if the victim had been a black woman and the suspect a white man, said panelist and Boston Globe Managing Editor Gregory Moore...
Charlene Morrisseau, a second-year law student and president of the Harvard Black Law Students Association, said the media still reports on shootings in black schools as an "inner-city" problem while shootings in white schools are the nation's problem...
Jesus may be pretty fly for a white guy, but some argue that the best reason to see Jesus Christ Superstar is the flygirls, the troupe of seven hot-to-trot female dancers who really spice things up throughout the show with their sexy moves and even sexier costumes. They are like the fabled "cherry on top" of an already tasty treat of a show: they sing, they dance (do they ever!), at times they even kickbox, and they do it all in crop-tops and hip-huggers. The flygirls are a "character" or "presence" in the show as much...
However, Harvard theater in general remains disproportionately white, and along with this imbalance, there remains the perception that shows do not welcome minorities--a perception that harms not only actors but also productions: several shows this semester that specifically planned to cast minority actors in conventionally white roles were unable to do so because they did not receive a large enough audition pool of minority actors...
...sneakers that do it. It's the sneakers--gleaming white symbols of American prosperity--that are so irreconciliable with the picture of the bare-footed toddler that has flooded bookstores' shelves for the past three years on the cover of Angela's Ashes. It's the sneakers that are so unlike the scuffed lace-ups that he wears in the photograph on the front of his latest book, 'Tis, as he grins out at the world from his new home in New York. And so, as McCourt patiently waits for his turn to speak, I struggle--unable to reconcile...