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to 9, Koger Center. Tickets cost $
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Monday, April 6,1998
Festival:
staff writer JAMIE BOWMAN
Music Midtown, an Atlanta festival,
is set to kick off its fifth anniversary
May 1 to May 3.
The festival is organized by Alex
Cooley and Peter Conlon who organize
events from talent buying to marketing.
It began as an attempt to unite culturally
and demographically diverse
people in celebration of the arts. Since
Music Midtown's debut in 1994, attendance
has nearly tripled with a turnout
of 200,668 in 1997.
New this year is a tent-covered main
stage to allow for a more intimate setting
for folk, jazz and Cajun artists.
This year's line-up includes such
artists as 2 Skinnee J's, Blue Mountain,
Boys Choir of Harlem, Paula Cole,
a Foo Fighters, Fuel, God Lives Underwater,
Indigo Girls, Etta James, Jolene,
Letters to Cleo, Morphine, Pain,
Sqwzbxx, Tonic, Violent Femmes
and many more.
Other festivities include an Artist's
Market featuring handcrafted items by
Southeast artisans and a children's
area.
There will also be food and beverages
available on-site from Atlanta
restaurants such as Ben & Jerry's and
Taste of New Orleans.
? Tickets cost $20 for a one day pass
or $30 for a three day pass and can be
purchased through TicketMaster outlets
or charged by phone at (404) 2496400.
Anypne interested in volunteering
should call the volunteer hotline at (770)
723-6572 or visit the Music Midtown
website at www.musicmidtown.com.
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The NAACP joined the campaign
last fall, threatening to launch a
boycott, and printed on its Web site
Merriam Webster's E-mail address
www.suggest@m-w.com.
With every mention, Merriam Webster
got more calls and letters ? hundreds
of them. Some demanded the
word be removed altogether. A few
liked it defined just as it is.
But most asked for some new definition
that makes clear "nigger" is a
slur ? not a person.
Delphine's suggestion: "a derogatory
term used to describe a black person."
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In just a few months, Delphine's
campaign came to define who she is.
Every day someone calls about it Each
day's mail includes a petition or two,
signed by 20 or 30 more people. All
of it has changed her.
And now it looks like it will change
a dictionary.
Merriam Webster this month conceded
a new definition of nigger is
"very, very likely" in its 1999 edition.
'We learned something significant"
said marketing director Deborah W.
Burns. "We learned our definition is
not clear, or not clear enough."
The Massachusetts company is
paying about a dozen outside consul
tants ? lexicographers and linguists,
some of them black?to work with its
all-white senior editors to come up
with new format for defining not just
the N-word, but hundreds of offensive
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