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...London this month Britons and Africans will sit down together to comb out the last snarls lying in the path of independence for the 31 million Africans of Nigeria. Their conversations have been speeded by the creation four months ago of the all-Negro Republic of Ghana (formerly the Gold Coast), whose U.S.-educated Premier Nkrunah has already moved into the residence of the departed British Governor General, leaving his old place to the Queen's new emissary...
...down, Producer Sam Goldwyn got the film rights to George Gershwin's Negro folk opera Porgy and Bess. Gershwin's estate and other beneficiaries will get a straight 10% of the movie's gross receipts. Goldwyn, reportedly seeking Calypsinger Harry Belafonte to head an all-Negro cast, plans to release Porgy late next year...
...integration had since then? It is quite true, says Superintendent Hansen, that the number of white pupils in the schools dropped 10% in one year (67.9% were Negroes last year). But part of the reason for this could well be the nationwide migration of families into the suburbs. It is also true that the Negroes have, on the whole, scored below their white classmates in IQ tests, but the inferiority of the all-Negro schools, rather than the pupils themselves, is to blame. Between 1945 and 1953, a total of 45,000 pupils had been on a half-day schedule...
...Ralph Abernathy, Negro pastor of the First Baptist Church, who has subordinated his own admitted ambitions for leadership to become King's strong, trusted right hand. Another bomb ripped into the home of a special object of white venom: the Rev. Robert Graetz, white pastor of the all-Negro Trinity-Lutheran Church, who has stood stoutly for integration. ("If I had a nickel for every time I've been called a nigger-loving s.o.b.," says Graetz, "I'd be independently wealthy.") Negro churches were also bombed (see map), and later an unexploded bomb was found on King...
...point there can be no equivocation. The acting and direction which this production displays is in every way superb, and very likely is the best work to come along this season. Each of the members of the all-Negro cast is an actor of unsurpassed stature. I am not in a position to compare Mantan Moreland with Bert Lahr, who played Estragon in the original American production, but it is difficult to imagine any performance which embodies slapstick drollery and technical subtlety to a higher degree of perfection. Earle Hyman as the more intelligent Valdimir suggests just the right amount...