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...Kuumba Singers concert, “We Have Heard Angels,” also encourages audience participation and enthusiasm with its gospel music and Negro spirituals. Yet Kuumba promises a different take on holiday music for this year’s Christmas concert, which will feature a more reflective tone...
DIED. FANNY MCCONNELL ELLISON, 93, writer and founding director in 1938 of Chicago's Negro People's Theater, who was acknowledged by many--including her husband Ralph Ellison--to be a key editor and adviser on his 1952 masterpiece, Invisible Man; in New York City. The couple, who were married from 1946 until his death in 1994, met after Fanny told a mutual friend, poet Langston Hughes, that she wanted to meet a man with an interest in books...
DIED. MOSES GUNN, 64, actor; from complications of asthma; in Guilford, Connecticut. Cofounder of the Negro Ensemble Company, Gunn, the oldest of seven children of a St. Louis, Missouri, laborer, made his off-Broadway debut in the legendary New York premiere of Jean Genet's provocative The Blacks (1962). Gunn won Obie awards for his work in Titus Andronicus (1967) and The First Breeze of Summer (1975), and was admired for his Othello. Movie credits included The Great White Hope (1970) and Shaft...
...appeared on the losing side in topical battle pictures. Prints like Lts Coghill and Melville Saving the Colours, Zulu War, 1879 (1882), after Adolphe Alphonse de Neuville, may look stagey to us, but even back then not everyone found them convincing. A critic commented: "[We see] the ordinary Parisian negro-models, reproduced in more or less warlike attitudes." Many painters became interested in their models' own stories. A section called "Into and Out of Africa" reveals how travelers and scientists, recording physical types and costumes, also observed the humanity of their subjects. David Wilkie's Negro Nurse with White Baby...
Lindstrom sees the United Negro College Fund and the Rhodes scholarships as his models, and in order to win, Point candidates must prove both academic success and commitment to gay causes. Not surprisingly, many also have biographies resembling Lindstrom's--they come from conservative families that haven't immediately accepted them. Candidates must write an essay on "how you feel you have been marginalized because of your sexual orientation." When scholars were called upon to introduce themselves at the retreat, many offered heartbreaking stories of family repudiation. It was routine to hear sniffling during these presentations, especially from adults...