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...BUFFALO, N.Y.--Two teen-agers have been arrested in the killings of two inner-city Roman Catholic priests, authorities said today. One of the young men confessed, said Police Commissioner Ralph V. Degenhart...
...will Gephardt long stand alone as the sole challenger from the House. Republican Jack Kemp from Buffalo has all but announced his candidacy. Kemp has already been tilting against Vice President George Bush, the G.O.P. front runner, whose campaign got a boost last week with the endorsement of New Hampshire Governor John Sununu...
Reed withdrew from the college for financial reasons and moved into Buffalo's low-income Black housing projects to define himself "against the artificial social and class distinctions associated with American university education," he says. Life there was "a horrible experience" because of his growing awareness that no individual, no matter how well-intentioned, could change these basic conditions of poverty. This experience led Reed to a period of intense political activism during the late civil rights movement and the early stages of the Black power movement...
REED BEGAN HIS PROFESSIONAL career as a staff correspondent with the Buffalo Empire Star Weekly. During the summer of 1961, Reed and the Star's editor co-hosted a controversial radio roundtable which presented political opinions and personalities even further left than the civil rights activists. The radio station cancelled the program after Reed interviewed Malcolm X, the leader of Nation of Islam, the Black nationalist movement...
...Reed moved from Buffalo to New York City and became actively involved in the birth of the Black arts and Black power movements as well as various underground integrated political-cultural organizations. He served as editor of Advance, a Newark, New Jersey weekly and then moved on to found the East Village Other, the first non-conventional newspaper to achieve national circulation. He also participated in the Umbra Workshop, a Black writers' group which "began the influorescene of Black Poetry as well as other recent styles of Afro-American writing," he says. In 1966, he published his first novel...