Word: blackly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first of these one-acters, Israel Horovitz's Morning, is black in every sense. The set and costumes are black, the people are black (or white, as I'll explain in a second), the humor is black. It is a strange play, one that insecure whites and Uncle Toms will call racist. Don't believe them...
Horovitz has set the work in Harlem, on one particular morning when a black family of four wakes up to find themselves as white as the sun outside their 125th Street window. They achieved this color transformation, you see, with the help of some amazing pills sold to them by a Jewish pawnbroker who got them from God (who is black), (Or maybe you don't see- it doesn't matter...
Anyway, with the help of these pills, this family has now escaped forever the sorrows of being black in America. As Gertrude, the mother, puts it, "I'll mince my way through Macy's and get thirty day credit. No-000000 one will give me crap...
Another group helped to rehabilitate three homes belonging to the South End Tenants Council, a predominantly black group that controls 30 housing units formerly owned by a slum landlord...
...Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, sponsors of the march, issued a position paper today reaffirming the group's intention to keep the march nonviolent. The statement called for an immediate cease-fire followed by removal of all troops and equipment from Vietnam. It expressed solidarity with Black Panther Huey Newton, Eldridge Cleaver, Bobby Seale, and the Chicago Eight...