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About two weeks ago, a previously obscure Black journal received campus acclaim for its newly-released 95-page publication. Diaspora surprised a lot of its literary peers--but shocking literary peers seems to be all the rage lately...

Author: By Liza M. Velazquez, | Title: Literary Magazines Explore New Directions | 3/1/1990 | See Source »

Recently the most visible of the minority magazines has been the just-released Diaspora. Heralding itself as "the journal of Black thought and culture," the magazine, as outlined by editor Kevin L. Young, '92, attempts "to flesh out the artistic and cultural side" of Black society...

Author: By Liza M. Velazquez, | Title: Literary Magazines Explore New Directions | 3/1/1990 | See Source »

Young, who co-founded the revamped Diaspora with Annlucien Q. Senna '91, said he perceived the need for a quality literary outlet for Black voices. Young said he and Senna resolved, over last summer, to reincarnate Diaspora, a publication that originally appeared in the early...

Author: By Liza M. Velazquez, | Title: Literary Magazines Explore New Directions | 3/1/1990 | See Source »

...Jewish people have survived for more than 2500 years since the destruction of the first temple and the beginning of the diaspora not only because of religious and cultural ties to other Jews, but also because of social ties...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 10/12/1989 | See Source »

...Expect no less in LW2, directed by Richard Donner and written by Jeffrey Boam. This installment features a surfboard decapitation, death by carpenter's nail gun, a bomb wired to a very sensitive seat (plot device lifted from Elmore Leonard's novel Freaky Deaky), and reduction of the Afrikaaner diaspora by about one-half. As Riggs tells Murtaugh, "We're back! We're bad! You're black! I'm mad!" Mad to the max. Riggs may not know how to spell apartheid, but he knows whom he hates. He even knows how to strike a blow for American property values...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: We Don't Need Another Heroid | 7/24/1989 | See Source »

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