Tag: black

  • DE KLERK—WHITE HOPE

    By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer | Sunday, April 3, 1994 The scenes are stunning: blacks lustily cheering apartheid scion Frederik Willem de Klerk as he campaigns for re-election to the presidency of South Africa. The happy candidate obliges by donning Zulu tribal hats, carrying spears and cowhide shields. “I’m white,” he told…

  • DEMOCRACY MAY BE FACING A DIFFICULT BIRTH

    By MICHAEL O. ALLEN and GENE MUSTAIN, Daily News Staff Writers | Sunday, April 24, 1994 JOHANNESBURG—After living much of her life with the perverse indignities of apartheid, voting in South Africa’s historic first all-race elections this week comes down to one thing for Louisa Rakale: “I’ll vote if somebody comes to take me to…

  • OUTRAGE_Not All Press Welcomed, No Matter What the Sign Says

    By GENE MUSTAIN, Daily News Staff Writer | Friday, April 29, 1994 RUSTENBURG—The first whiff of the hate in store came when we turned off the two-lane blacktop onto a dusty rutted road and a group of Boer commandos by a parked car glared at us. One of them, a huge pot-bellied man with a…

  • TAKE PRIDE, PROFESSOR URGES BLACKS

    By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Sunday, October 20, 1991 The Record (New Jersey) | All Editions | NEWS | Page A03 After professor Rosalind Jeffries concluded a speech urging blacks to take pride in their heritage, a waiter went over and thanked her for inspiring him and exhorted her to press on with…

  • URBAN LEAGUE HONORS STUDENTS

    Christopher Sanders said he did not know he would receive an award at the annual Urban League Salute to African American Scholars until he arrived at the ceremonies Sunday in Hackensack.