AJC.comControversy swirls around upcoming book chronicling Black leading families
"I know it is going to upset people, but I have an important goal in mind, " Graham said in a recent interview. "This is about more than finding the 800. I am also trying to address the negative images that seem to pervade the media and mind-set. The only black success stories we seem to want to embrace are athletes, comedians and entertainers."
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N.Y. Daily News
Arrest in Stepha Henry CaseStepha Henry, a 22-year-old beauty, vanished last May while on vacation in Florida.
Her family has been searching for her ever since, hoping for the best - and still refusing to believe the worst Tuesday even as cops charged 32-year-old Kendrick Williams with her murder.
Her family has been searching for her ever since, hoping for the best - and still refusing to believe the worst Tuesday even as cops charged 32-year-old Kendrick Williams with her murder.
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If It's Africa, It Must Be a Tribe
The use of the word "tribe" to describe groups of people in Africa is being discouraged at some major news organizations, including the world's largest, the Associated Press, where the international editor acknowledges that "the description of a conflict as tribal, rather than ethnic, may carry a pejorative meaning or evoke old stereotypes from the 19th century and early 20th century colonial era."
3 comments:
One of my Women's Studies professors was a native of South African and anytime we made mention of tribes in Africa, she would always correct us and tell us to say: "nations".
to add to that, i can see how it has become a derogatory term b/c of the negative image associated with tribes as savage people living in jungles and bush.
Browngirl,
That's true it's amazing that the West has stereotyped the whole world.
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