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.After O.J.Simpson s wife, Nicole, and her friend, Ron Gold-man, were killed, Simpson became the obvious suspect.Since thereis no bail on a murder charge, Simpson knew he would probably bein jail for months before the trial.He was supposed to surrender at11:00 A.M.where thousands of reporters and others were gathered.Friends said he was trying to get his business in order; others claimedhe was contemplating suicide or that he was visiting Nicole s gravesite.Nonetheless, he rode around the Los Angeles freeways in his1993 white Ford Bronco driven by his buddy Al Cowling, and na-tionwide confusion resulted as police cars, TV news vehicles, andnews helicopters followed.News reports called it a slow-speedchase, but it was not a chase at all but more like a parade.An esti-mated 95 million Americans watched it.At about 8:00 P.M., Simp-son s car arrived at his Brentwood home, where he was arrested.Hewas held in jail until he was acquitted on October 3, 1995, more thana year later.See also O.J.SIMPSON MURDER TRIAL VERDICT.OKE, FEMI.Oke joined CNN International in 1999 after having beena weather presenter in London television.Her credits at CNN includebeing weather anchor for CNN International s World Weather ser-vice.OLYMPIC GAMES, 1968 (ABC, October 16, 1968).These OlympicGames originated from Mexico City during a time when black Amer-icans were expressing discontent with discrimination in the UnitedStates.Martin Luther King Jr.had been assassinated a few monthsbefore, and his nonviolent movement was being replaced with riotingin urban areas.Tension enveloped the nation over losses in the Viet-nam War.There was a rumor that black athletes would boycott thegames.Track champions Tommie Smith and John Carlos, both black 314 " OLYMPIC GAMES, 1996Americans, did not boycott, but their silent protest was seen aroundthe world via television.Smith won the gold medal in the 200-meterrace, and Carlos won the bronze.As the National Anthem played dur-ing the medal ceremony, they each held up one black-gloved hand ina clinched fist denoting black power and bowed their heads.Smithlater said he decided to protest only minutes before the ceremony,that he told Carlos and he agreed to join him as they walked towardthe platform.Smith handed Carlos a glove.Smith said he silently saidthe Lord s Prayer as the music played. It was a prayer of solidarity, he said.Officials of the Olympic Games and much of white Americawere angry, to say the least.Smith and Carlos worked in the fringesof sports (Smith as a community college coach), but their careers asathletes ended that day.TV Guide, in calling the incident one of tele-vision s more memorable moments (in 2004), said the athletes madea bold statement of past race relations. OLYMPIC GAMES, 1996 (NBC, July 19, 1996).In the opening cer-emony of the Olympic Games, probably nothing is more exciting, es-pecially for the host country, than the anticipation and the final recog-nition of which athlete will light the Olympic torch.In 1996, thegames were held in Atlanta, Georgia, a primarily black city with ablack mayor, so black viewers expected a black athlete, though thatwas indeed not promised.During the weeks before the Games, chat-ter at cocktail parties and around office water coolers was, Who canit be? When Muhammad Ali s name was mentioned (he had beenan athlete in the 1960 Olympics), it was quickly dismissed becauseAli suffered from Parkinson s disease.Also, the identity of the torchlighter is always a secret, and no one could imagine how Ali couldsneak into Atlanta without being seen.So, when swimmer JanetEvans ascended the stairs to the platform, Ali stepped into view totake the torch.America black and white was in tears.Fans prayedthat his trembling hands wouldn t drop the torch.NBC s host BobCostas, who was unaware, said, Look who gets it next, and his co-host, Dick Enberg, announced, The Greatest! Ali s friend since1962, photographer Howard Bingham had helped mastermind theelaborate plot.Bingham said he had lobbied for Ali to light the torchfor a whole year without telling Ali of his efforts.Finally, in June,producer Don Mischer called him to say he wanted to do it.Bingham ONE IN A MILLION: THE RON LEFLORE STORY " 315said, I did not tell Ali until just before, but I did tell his wife.Alican t keep a secret. Mischer had warned that the element of surprisewas crucial and that if word got out that Ali would light the torch,there was another athlete standing by to substitute.OMNIBUS (CBS, 1953 1956; ABC, 1956 1957).Omnibus was a 90-minute cultural experience featuring documentary, musical theater,historical drama, ballet, opera, symphony, literature, and informa-tional presentation.Sometimes, the show featured excerpts from pro-ductions like theatrical dramas.At other times, scripts were writtenfor the Omnibus audience.Occasionally, there were black perform-ers.For example, William Marshall played the title role in Oth-ello, and Eartha Kitt played Salome. O NEAL, FREDERICK.O Neal played the role of Moses in TheGreen Pastures on Hallmark Hall of Fame (1957).O NEAL, RON.O Neal had key roles in the television movies Free-dom Road in 1979, Brave New World in 1980, and The SophisticatedGents in 1981.He was H.H., the Sultan of Johore, in Bring em BackAlive, the 1982 1983 adventure series.He played Steve Phillips inthe TV film Playing with Fire (1985).O Neal died in 2004.ONE IN A MILLION (ABC, 1980).Shirley Hemphill starred in thissitcom as taxi driver Shirley Simmons, who, after one of her cus-tomers died, inherited a multi-million-dollar corporation.The gutsyShirley locked horns with a company executive, Mr.Cushing (KeeneCurtis), who had hoped to take over as head of the company.She hadher own ideas of how to run a company.Ralph Wilcox played Duke.Ann Weldon and Mel Stewart played Edna and Raymond, Shirley sparents.The series lasted six months.ONE IN A MILLION: THE RON LEFLORE STORY (CBS, Sep-tember 26, 1978).LeVar Burton starred in the title role of thisbiopic, a TV film about the life of a street kid who goes to prison af-ter a life of petty crime.He then turns his life around and becomes aprofessional baseball player.It also starred Paul Benjamin, LarryScott, and Billy Martin. 316 " ONE LOVE: THE BOB MARLEY ALL-STAR TRIBUTEONE LOVE: THE BOB MARLEY ALL-STAR TRIBUTE (TNT,December 12, 1999).Bob Marley, who is credited with taking reggaemusic of Jamaica and introducing it to the world, died of cancer in1981.His family, consisting of seven children (including Stephen,Ziggy, and Damian), was joined by Erykah Badu, Tracy Chapman,Lauryn Hill, Queen Latifah, Busta Rhymes, Jimmy Cliff, SherylCrow, and others for a celebration of Marley s music on the beach ofOracabessa Bay in Jamaica.The concert consisted of 19 songs in-cluding Get Up, Stand Up, Redemption Song, and One Love. ONE MORE TIME (CBS, January 10, 1974).This one-hour varietyspecial featured performances by comedy and music stars.Amongthem were Pearl Bailey, the Jackson Five, The Mills Brothers, andThe Pointer Sisters.Also in the cast were Carol Channing, GeorgeGobel, and the June Taylor Dancers.ONE ON ONE (UPN, 2001 ).Flex Alexander played Flex Washing-ton, a television sportscaster and former National Basketball Associ-ation star who must give up his bachelor life when his teen-ageddaughter, Breanna (Kyla Pratt) moves in with him
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William Inboden Religion and American Foreign Policy, 1945 1960, The Soul of Containment (2008)
R. Murray Thomas Manitou and God, North American Indian Religions and Christian Culture (2007
Philip Gordon, Jeremy Shapiro Allies At War, America, Europe and the Crisis Over Iraq (2004)
Jane Elliott Popular Feminist Fiction as American Allegory, Representing National Time (2008)
Cathy J. Cohen Democracy Remixed, Black Youth and the Future of American Politics (2010)
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