Word: cleaver
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kathleen N. Cleaver, an assistant professor of law at Emory University and a renowned civil rights activist, spoke on her three experiences with Martin Luther King Jr. that changed her life--and the life of all blacks in America...
...personally assisted a movement that destroyed fear," Cleaver said. "We are living in somber times.... Too much of what he talked about remains unchanged...
...oatmeal with bananas at breakfast, then preschool for Adam, 2, regular feedings for his one-year-old foster sister and bedtime stories when Dad returns from a long day at his telecommunications job. Dad No. 1, that is: Jon Holden and Michael Galluccio are a Ward and June Cleaver for the '90s, gay partners whose yearning for a traditional family of sorts--Dad, Dad and the kids--may have just transformed the battle for gay equality...
...Boogie Nights delivers its most surprising, and most deeply, American turn. Anderson's menagerie of sleazy characters find redemption in family. Albeit, the family is "non-traditional," but Jack Horner, director of exotic cinema, presides over his brood of porn stars and crew with the patriarchal dedication of Ward Cleaver. By the close of the movie, all the chicks have come back to the nest. In the closing sequence, we watch Jack survey his abode, pausing to assure his wife, Amber Waves, and to chastise Rollergirl, the not-quite-angelic daughter-figure, for her unclean room. He proceeds outside...
Alumni of the fellows program include Professor of Afro-American Studies Cornel R. West '74 and Professor of African American Religious History Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, and scholars Arnold Rampersad, George Frederickson and Kathleen N. Cleaver...