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Dennis Wiley and Fred Lucas, two seniors who graduated in 1972, took Walter's class and were instrumental in forming the Kuumbas. Lucas, now an assistant minister at St. Paul's AME Church in Central Square, gives most of the credit to Wiley.
"The impetus for organizing came from Dennis." Wiley agreed to direct the group "for no salary--out of the goodness of his heart," emphasizes Lucas.
"We felt a general need for an instrument for the expression of black musical creativity," Lucas says. At first oriented toward sacred music, the group later developed a wider range, and it added poetry and prose readings. "We wanted to try and fill the vacuum for black creative arts. We...
Lucas Alexander, the doctor who has been Martha's old flame, comes to join her in the Golden Age ghetto, and without a false touch of pathos, Miss Douglas writes a love story as passionate as it is asexual. Old age, she suggests, is a wicked spell cast upon...
In the presence of these active forces of anti-life, as well as the passive bystanders-Martha's relatives-Miss Douglas refuses to write a happy ending to her fairy tale. Martha and Lucas go up in the sort of gorgeous ritual blaze of self-destruction that besets Southern...