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Prospects for the Hon. Andy Young's international consulting firm brightened stupendously this month when United Press International reported the first hard evidence of Negroes living in outer space. According to the UPI, a Negro space traveler named Mr. Quadir from the planet G-7 got on a Manhattan shuttle train wearing iridescent purple sunglasses and a green and yellow vinyl jacket to which had been pinned a rubber alligator. Explaining that he was penniless, owing to the unexpected crash of his spaceship, Mr. Quadir played a few tunes on his saxaphone and asked fellow passengers for financial assistance. When...
...only was this part of Roxbury much more exciting but I felt more relaxed among Negroes who were being their natural selves and not putting on airs. Even though I did live on the Hill, my instincts were never--and still aren't--to feel myself any better than any other Negro. --Malcom X, The Autobiography of Malcom...
...coffee pot and a table that wobbles and two people who don't--American Gothic, 1980--and all of a sudden here's this Great Gay Peaco k, a thermonuclear presence, strutting and preening and threatening everyone in sigh. He is what Norman Mailer called the "White Negro," the hipster: the man who sleeps with death, and seduces...
Clevelanders were out to prove last night that their city can handle the pressure of the big time. And so they asked the Cleveland chapter of the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Clubs--which had originally reserved the Public Hall or tonight--to move its annual Ebony fashion fair down the street to the Palace Theater...
...Fishermen, the Household of Ruth, the Heroines of Jericho, the Harvard Lodge of Oddfellows, and the Elks. Other Blacks congregated around the many churches in the community, including the African Methodist Episcopal Church, which served a large West Indian population. And for politically active Blacks, Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) served as a forum. Garvey, who favored a return of Blacks to their native homelands drew large crowds when he came to Cambridge. Most in the end, however, remined in Cambridge--"They found the United States a better place to earn a dollar," Johnson says simply