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...Black Nationalists, too, are split every which way. Spiritual heirs of that flamboyant fake Marcus Garvey, the Jamaican Negro who paraded through Harlem under a banner with a black star in the 1920s calling for a return to Africa, scores of outfits exist. There are Elijah Muhammad's Black Muslims and Malcolm X's offshoot Organization of Afro-American Unity, the Ethiopia Coptic Orthodox Mission and the House of Common Sense and Home of Proper Propaganda, which displays a sign advertising the book The God Damn White Man. All told, they probably have no more than...
With her roommate, Paula Hamilton-Marshall, and their housekeeper, dark-haired Olive Brooker, Defendant Keeler had pleaded guilty to framing Jamaican Jazz Singer Aloysius ("Lucky") Gordon, a jilted lover of Christine's; he was first convicted, on her own sober testimony, of beating her and later released on the basis of her drunken tape-recorded confession that she had lied. Thus, as she was led from the half-empty courtroom with tears starting from her eyes, ended what Defense Counsel Hutchin son probably prematurely termed "the last chapter in this long saga that has been called the Keeler affair...
...Neville Ashenheim, Jamaican ambassador to the United States, predicted last night that Castro's Cuba would eventually become a victim of its own specialty--revolution...
...Jamaican ambassador conceded that at present chances for the amendment's passage were almost nonexistent...
...picture was not all that ideologically simple. Some of England's greatest literary figures, who wrote so warmly of the poor and oppressed, flocked to the defense of Eyre. Thomas Carlyle could not speak of Jamaican Negroes without being insulting: "Sitting with their beautiful muzzles up to their ears in pumpkins, imbibing sweet pulps and juices; their grinder and incisor teeth ready for every new work while the sugar crops rot." Only slightly less violent were Alfred Lord Tennyson, John Ruskin and Charles Dickens; Novelist Charles Kingsley proposed that Eyre should be elevated to the peerage...