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...have as much importance in literary history as the much- spoken-of and much-praised Celtic and Canadian renaissance." Others came to share his optimism. Just three years later, a critic declared the birth of the "New Negro Literary Movement." At the time, after all, the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, the novelists Pauline Hopkins and Charles Chesnutt, and the essayists W.E.B. DuBois and Anna Julia Cooper were at the height of their creative powers. So this was no reckless appraisal...
Cynthia J. Dunbar...
...move on the 6-ft. 3-in. teenager who is taking aim. That's because the patrolman is one of about 75 spectators who have dropped by for an Under the Stars basketball game -- and the shooter simply wants to sink a basket. Every Tuesday and Thursday night inside Dunbar High School gym -- 12 blocks from the Capitol and five from one of Washington's most notorious drug markets -- the only shots the police have to worry about are lay-ups and free throws...
...schools that use programs designed for classrooms, the news has been encouraging as well. One notable success story comes from Oklahoma City, where district officials had been set to close Dunbar Elementary, a virtually all- black school in a low-income neighborhood, because student scores on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills failed to meet state standards. In an eleventh-hour effort to save the school, the district two years ago used federal money to buy a computer learning program called SuccessMaker, developed by the Computer Curriculum Corp. of Sunnyvale, California. The software allows individual students to advance at their...
...best performance in this production is that of Cynthia Dunbar as Alice Miller, one of the other comedy writers. To be fair, Alice gets most of this show's best lines ("Sy, these jokes are old enough to vote") and it is probably not a coincidence that the New York reviewers liked the actress who played Alice the best as well. The expansion of Alice's role is one welcome change from the movie and Dunbar plays the wise-cracking dame to perfection...