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...recognize that apartheid causes political strains. As a result, we have had a long policy of restraint with regard to loans to South Africa," Jim Langston, senior vice president in charge of social policy for Bank of America, said last night...
...integration of the folkloric tradition which Chestnutt used so well in his "Conjure" tales. One finds a very special use of the African elegy in the works of Phyllis Wheatley; especial richness of Arabic poetry in the poems of Claude McKay; use of Jazz rhythms in the work of Langston Hughes: and the particular coolness of Afro-American life-style in the work...
Some 35 years ago, Black Poet Langston Hughes bitterly warned: "Negroes, sweet and docile/ Meek, humble and kind: Beware the day they change their mind." They have changed their minds, with a vengeance, says Silberman. "After 350 years of fearing whites, black Americans have discovered that the fear runs the other way, that whites are intimidated by their very presence; it would be hard to overestimate what an extraordinarily liberating force this discovery is." The almost pathetic hopefulness of the motto of the Tuskegee Institute class of 1886?"There's always room at the top" ?finally gave...
Shades of Black, at the Loeb Ex, includes three one-act plays by Langston Hughes, Ed Bullins and Dorothy Ahmad, and is showing at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Tickets are free at the box office the afternoon before each performance...
...YEARS AGO, Jonathan Kozol '58, Harvard Graduate and Rhodes Scholar, got a job teaching black fourth graders in the then segregated Boston public school system and was fired for having his class read a poem by Langston Hughes. The poem, he was informed, was not on the approved reading list, and the school department was not of a mind to allow teachers to determine what was to pass for education...