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...Nobel Prize for Literature. Rita Dove was appointed the country's first black poet laureate. Two works inspired by the Rodney King affair -- 56 Blows, a symphony by Alvin Singleton, and Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, a one- woman docudrama by playwright and performer Anna Deavere Smith -- were rousing successes. Yusef Komunyakaa became the third black, after Gwendolyn Brooks and Rita Dove, to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. The emotionally charged dances of choreographer Bill T. Jones -- who some critics say exemplifies the spirit of the new black upsurge -- were a powerful high point of last spring's Gay Games...
Stith, a 1979 graduate of the Divinity school who has worked in Boston-area churches for the past 11 years, warned the picnickers of ongoing racial polarization. He cited the 1989 murder of Yusef Hawkins in Bensonhurst, N.Y., and the letter bombs recently sent to NAACP offices as examples of a "racist terrorism" which is becoming more and more common...
...answer may lie in the case of a Boston University student who had the misfortune of getting into a fight with the now-infamous John R. Silber. In 1986, Yusef Abramowitz lived in one of B.U.'s many student dormitories. Concerned about the university's South African holdings, he put a poster advocating divestment in his window...
Rage? Upon arrest, police said, the boys joked and rapped and sang. Asked why he beat her head with a lead pipe, Yusef Salaam was quoted by investigators as saying "It was fun." The boys have not yet been taught to say they did it because of rage, pain and despair, because of the sins whites have visited upon them and their ancestors. But they will be taught. By trial time, they will be well versed in the language of liberal guilt and exoneration...
Indeed, his son Yusef spoke to the latter aspect, when in his introduction to his father's address at the Democratic National Convention he said that too many members of his generation have chosen to spell "relief D-R-U-G-S rather than...