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...Christian group which devotes its energies to community service and downplays the significance of minority involvement on campus. And keeping pace with both of those developments has been the success of cultural groups--the Black C.A.S.T. Drama group; the Kuumba Singers; Expressions, a dance group; and the literary magazine Diaspora--which have begun to assert themselves as independent organizations after initially being under the auspices of BSA through its sister organization, the Afro-American Cultural Center...
...Black group gathered momentum, it formed its own cultural groups, including Kuumba. Black C.A.S.T., and Diaspora, a Black literary magazine. Despite their cultural orientation, these groups were initially political. The Kuumba sisters, for example, frequently sang in prisons and at political rallies, says Diane A. Crawford '83, the group's former president. Other groups, although less overtly political, were at least implicitly so in their efforts to define a unique cultural identify or "Black Nationalism." Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III believes these cultural groups were highly influenced by the emergence of radical basis within Black society, their growth...
...late 1970s, however, these groups increasingly as contact with the BSA and, at the same time, largely shed their political undertones. Recent leaders of Kuumba, Diaspora and Black C.A.S.T. agree that their respective organizations have become more exclusively artistic endeavors. "The Black contribution to American art is important enough and of itself to be the sole concern of Black C.A.S.T., former president Patricia S. Bellinger '83 says, adding "politics is not higher than...
More cautious about defining themselves by their race, incoming Black students today are more likely to join an all-Black cultural group than a political one, several Black leaders say. These groups appear less threatening since Black students, "can join without buying an ideology," says Gomes. A member of Diaspora agrees, saying, "We don't tell anyone they're politically incorrect" In addition, these more conservative--and often more affluent--Black students have formed new types of groups such as the Percy C. Julian Society, a Black pre-med support group, and intercollegiate Black fraternities and sororities. By the late...
...Palestine National Council, the organization's de facto parliament. Headed by Arafat, Fatah enjoys the support of middle-class moderates and has few ideological goals other than the liberation of Palestine. Though Fatah receives most of its funds from the gulf states, primarily Saudi Arabia, and the Palestinian diaspora, it is the only group without binding ties to an Arab government. That independence, along with the fact that about 80% of the P.L.O.'s fighters are under its command, has made Fatah a formidable power base for Arafat...