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...final night of the holiday, friends and relatives join the family for a feast known as the Karamu. This year a compendium of celebratory recipes has been published in Eric Copage's Kwanzaa: An African-American Celebration of Culture and Cooking (Morrow; $25). The book also contains stories about black history and culture, along with suggestions on how to use them to illustrate the seven principles...
...local crop. Western Reserve, the California Academy of Sciences and the Universities of Buffalo and Louisville are working with other local stations. Cleveland's WEWS drew one of its biggest audiences with an hour-long telecast of Menotti's opera, The Medium, staged by the famed Karamu Players. When a strike closed city schools, Minneapolis put classes on the air, was staggered by their instant popularity (TIME...
...Karamu House's directors are an extraordinary pair named Russell and Rowens Jelliffe. They went to Oberlin College together, did social work in Chicago, went to the "Roaring Third" in 1915 at the invitation of Cleveland's Second Presbyterian Church. Taking over an abandoned funeral parlor, they invited in the neighborhood youngsters, white and black, for games and dancing. They soon decided that 1) most Negroes are born artists, 2) in their art lies Negroes' best chance for winning a secure place in U. S. society...
...launched the Gilpin Players in a converted poolroom. They made spotlights of tin cans, tapestries of burlap, seats of secondhand pews. They started other groups painting, etching, dancing, singing, composing, band-playing, glazing pottery. One day a 14-year-old boy named Zell Ingram, having learned puppet-making in Karamu House, decided to see the world. He bought an old Ford, converted its rumble seat into a stage, paid his way to Manhattan and back by giving shows along the road. Now Zell Ingram is a well-known sculptor. Karamu House also is proud of Elmer Brown, who arrived there...
...Today Karamu House is a study and workshop for 1,400 youngsters and 800 grownups. Its Gilpin Players have produced 140 plays, rank as the No. 1 Negro theatre in the U. S. They have graduated to the professional stage Playwright Langston Hughes, Actor John Marriott (The Little Foxes}, many another talented Negro. Two months ago 600 Clevelanders, big & small, gathered to celebrate Karamu House's 25th anniversary. Said Play wright Paul Green: "The Jelliffes are the kind of dreamers who have made America great." To play a joke on teacher by falling asleep in class, six Minneapolis...