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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. ROSALIND CASH, 56, screen and stage actor; of cancer; in Los Angeles. A founder of the Negro Ensemble Company in the '60s and a major black film star of the '70s, Cash enlivened classic classics (King Lear), modern classics (Lonne Elder's Ceremonies in Dark Old Men) and pulp classics (the 1971 sci-fi flick The Omega...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Nov. 13, 1995 | 11/13/1995 | See Source »

...room of a big house: "If you never go into that room, you don't know anything about [it]. If I come out of that room to clean many other things in the rest of the house, then I know about the whole house." Richard Wright said that the "Negro is America's metaphor." The idea is that black people, merely by existing, hold up a mirror to white America, in which it may see itself darkly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A NATION OF PAINED HEARTS | 10/16/1995 | See Source »

...mansions of the rich and respectable. Who are then revealed to be the source of all civic corruption. Precisely because Easy is black and an unlicensed investigator, his journey through the social strata is much more perilous than Marlowe's ever was. In Los Angeles 50 years ago a "Negro" risked his life (or anyway a nasty beating) if he was found in a white neighborhood or in the company of a white woman. And the cops, of course, could be counted on to treat him with brutal contempt (perhaps the only American tradition that has survived intact to this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: DOWN THESE MEAN, PALM-LINED STREETS | 10/2/1995 | See Source »

...when I first understood that I belonged to a minority. In those early years, I had no such sense, because on Banana Kelly there was no majority. Everybody was either a Jew, an Italian, a Pole, a Greek, a Puerto Rican or, as we said in those days, a Negro. Racial epithets were hurled around and sometimes led to fistfights. But it was not "You're inferior--I'm better.'' The fighting was more like avenging an insult to your team. Among my boyhood friends were Victor Ramirez, Walter Schwartz, Manny Garcia, Melvin Klein. The Kleins were the first family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MY AMERICAN JOURNEY: Colin Powell | 9/18/1995 | See Source »

...wars that now, at the sour close of the 20th century, seems remote and glittering, like something enclosed in a bell jar. This was the moment when New York, pupating into a modernist capital, contained all the other buzz-word News-new woman, new paganism, new verse, the New Negro and the New Republic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: CAMPING UNDER GLASS | 9/18/1995 | See Source »

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