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...mail titled "KUUMBACIDE??," posted last Wednesday, one Kuumba participant asked the choir's members to reexamine their commitment to gospel's history and power and questioned the effects of the changing demographics of the choir...
...apathy, we could be interpreted as not taking Christianity seriously," read the e-mail, which was provided to The Crimson by a member of the group. "Understand that when we go before a black church or a black elementary school and say we're about to sing gospel with nearly half our members white, we immediately bear the burden of proof...
...Kuumba Singers, formed in 1970 as theHarvard-Radcliffe Gospel Choir, "was a product ofthe times, of the turbulent sixties and seventies,of the search and struggle for a collectiveAfrican American self," wrote Kenneth S. Ingraham'74 in the choir's 25-year anniversary booklet...
Another group member who posted to the list,Megan K. Whyte '01, said in an interview Fridaythat she believes the group's performance cantranscend audience's prejudgments about amulticultural gospel choir and its investment tothe music and its history...
...folks aim to forgive, as improbable and unnatural as it may seem. "The healing cannot begin until we forgive," said Gary Cremeens, a minister at the funeral of Paige Ann Herring, the first of the girls to be buried. He intoned the story of Jesus and Lazarus from the Gospel: "He cried with a loud voice, 'Lazarus, come forth.' And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes." A promise of resurrection--and an allusion to the deepest of sorrows. For it was over Lazarus that Jesus wept. In a more modern tribute to the girls...