Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...proceeded to defend a broad view of family and community, few in the audience were surprised. "When we speak of families," she said, "we mean extended families. We mean the neighbors, even the community itself." Yet this was not Hillary Rodham Clinton's oft-repeated defense of a certain African proverb that by now even the village idiot has heard a few too many times. These words were uttered by Barbara Bush at the far-right, fanatic 1992 Republican Convention in Houston. Four years later, Bob Dole, in his convention address, repudiated not only Hillary Clinton, but Barbara Bush, when...
...collection, which spans from the 1970s to the 1990s, has several books that feature Southern food and cookbooks by African-American and Jewish writers, Haber said...
...profoundly subvert the spirit of the Civil Rights Act, the crowning achievement of my life, which became law only a year ago." Instead, the idea was that custom, ethnocentrism, poverty, bad schools, old-boy networking and a host of other factors would conspire against the new civil rights of African Americans and any real socioeconomic advancement. So L.B.J. compelled government and its contractors to look a little harder for blacks to fill job openings. Thousands of private organizations instituted affirmative-action plans of their own, voluntarily, because they accepted the logic...
...Politically, the key question about it is how numerous its enemies are. Probably most whites casually resent affirmative action; a committed group burns with outrage about it; and some whites (it's hard to say how many) have actually lost a job or a place in school to an African American because of affirmative action. On the other side is an equally varied group: those who aren't affected by affirmative action, or who have benefited from it, or who want there to be some corrective mechanism built into the system, or who don't want to open a racial...
Clearly, the Fergusons were the key agents on the ground for this covert operation. On July 17, Mary Jo Ferguson wrote a note to the National Park Service requesting a permit to hold a "wedding ceremony" on Cumberland Island. The wedding would be held at the First African Baptist Church, near the northernmost point of the island. In the weeks leading up to that date, the Fergusons discreetly arranged all the supplies and staff for the dinner and the reception. Charlie Taylor, who owns a company on the mainland that provided some of the food, says...