Word: newarkers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Starting extensive social projects which will cause greater involvement and influence of minority groups (including students) in the decision-making process. White members of the NDC in New Jersey hope to help Newark blacks to elect a black in the up-coming mayoralty elections...
...Festival, which will be co-sponsored by Afro and Winthrop House in March, will feature only black artists. James Baldwin, Leroi Jones, Dizzie Gillespie, the Abysynnian Baptist Choir of Newark, N.J., and a street theatre group from New York have been invited, but none of them has accepted...
RIOT brings the streets back into the theatre. Cambridge audiences that have grown fat on the delicacies at the Loeb, complacent with the truisms of Brecht, and satiated with the Living Theater, are about to be kicked back to consciousness. If you were in Chicago or Newark or Watts, you probably know what Riot is. If you weren't, you'd better get to the First Parish Church this week...
Honkified Deity. Dr Nathan Wright Jr., an Episcopal priest from Newark, told the meeting that blacks must get rid of the "honkified God" who, he charged, has been imposed on Negroes by white Christians. The Rev. Herbert Bell Shaw, a bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church and president of the committee, called on the group to evolve "a message and a dynamic leadership for the peculiar and urgent needs of the black people." The present religious task, added the Rev. Melvin Talbert, a Methodist district superintendent in California, "is to help black people find themselves, to restore...
Sligar and Son has the air, at least, of being a drama of contemporary racial strife. The setting is a ghetto grocery store in pre-riot Newark. The characters refer to black people as "blacks" and white people as "honkies." Still, I have my doubts as to whether Hoye actually knows any more about the ghetto than Spiro Agnew. His one-act play is not about black power or slum despair or even law and order as much as he would like us to believe it is. Rather, it is the story of a simple white bigot whose son rejects...