Women dressed in black cried, and clouds of dirt drifted through the hot afternoon air as the procession made its way through the village.
The family of the player, who is black, cried racism, claiming that blacks received disproportionately harsh punishment from the white headmaster.
While pinned to the ground, Mr. Rush, who is black, cried out repeatedly, "I can't breathe!" One of the officers has resigned, and the police chief offered to do so as well.
Familiar images -- say, a newspaper photo of an Iraqi woman wrapped head-to-toe in black, crying over a devastating loss -- will take on added dimensions, evoke greater curiosity or simply seem far less distant than before.
The first full-length play of this kind was an adaptation of Lin Shu's Heinu yutianlu (1901; "The Black Slave Cries Out to Heaven"), itself a version of Uncle Tom's Cabin; it was produced by a group of Chinese students in Japan in 1907.
"It's the black Dorian Gray!" cries his friend, a semi-comical reference, I thought, to both the character's and Washington's extreme youthfulness; now 57, he could pass for a man in his early 40s, and one in good shape at that.
They presented Red or Black, for crying out loud.
Who wants to be portrayed as the uppity black victim crying wolf to distract from their own shortcomings?
I still remember the water beating down on me in the tiny stall and sitting on the black tile crying.
On this day, the artist stood before a 12-inch waxen sculpture that depicted a black man crying out to the heavens.
