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...BULLINS has written more than 30 plays, served as Minister of Culture for the Black Panthers, won an Obie award, and spent a lot of time hustling in the street. He's also just written his first novel, The Reluctant Rapist, an imaginatively structured but sadly shallow portrait of ghetto life...
...soon after he was elected in 1968. The Black P. Stone Nation on the South Side was the largest. It had several thousand members, and was turning from traditional gang activities to organizing for political and economic action. The group posed a threat to Mayor Daley's control of ghetto votes and became a prime target for Daley's machine. The Black Panthers, despite its tiny membership in Illinois, were considered an even greater threat. The Panthers were trying to keep gangs from fighting each other and to direct everyone's efforts against city hall. They had also begun...
...past few years there has been an increasing amount of discussion of possible statistical differences in I.Q. between races in the research literature, the popular press and the classroom. These differences have been advanced by some as explanations of a variety of social ills ranging from unemployment to ghetto living conditions. It has appeared clear to many of us that it is important to have wide public discussion of the arguments and issues involved by informed workers in several fields of science...
Anxious to replace the doctors who had traditionally served adjacent neighborhoods and referred patients to Cabrini, the hospital board last year tried a unique approach. It bought an abandoned movie theater a few miles from the hospital, also in the ghetto area, refurbished it and added examination and waiting rooms. At the same time the board launched a search for two doctors willing to staff the theater-turned-clinic. Conditions: Cabrini would guarantee salaries of $3,000 per month for each doctor in return for referrals to Cabrini...
...style. The force behind the group's unrelenting swaying rhythms builds up like the lava emerging from a volcano. Bob Marley's lyrics combine Rastafarlan spirituality with an uncompromising insistence on political freedom; the Wailers create an atmosphere of a revolutionary cadre holding a ganja party in a Kingston ghetto. Unfortunately, Paul's Mall, which offers no dance floor, is probably one of the worst places to sit and become engaged in such a driving rhythmic force. But the chance to hear "Cath a Fire" and "Get Up, Stand Up" is worth the frustration. The Wailers are playing...