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Liberating Power. Spurred by the black community's strengthened sense of identity, black women have their own complaint. In the Negro Digest, Actress Abbey Lincoln burst out: "We are the women whose bars and recreation halls are invaded by flagrantly disrespectful, bigoted, simpering, amoral, emotionally unstable, outcast, maladjusted, nymphomaniacal, condescending [white] women in desperate and untiring search" for black men. In the first issue of the new black women's magazine Essence, due out April 28, Writer Louise Meriwether describes a typical dashiki-clad black man and his white date: " 'Sensual, sexy Black man.' That...
Women's-righters and antiwar protesters twitted her at some stops. "A few shouters cannot dim the glory of this day," she said in Lexington, Ky. As she filled her 14-hour days with visits to the poor, the blind, the retarded, the aged and the outcast, she emphasized: "I want to go where the action is." All Americans, she said, should "get on the bandwagon and help out in their communities...
...someone who didn't fit. He's lived around blacks a great deal in prison life, and became fascinated with them. I wouldn't attempt to go into all the psychological reasons behind that. But in the sense that he's lived all his life as a misfit, and outcast as it were. I think he understands motivations of black hatred, as well-or perhaps because he's not black and he's not involved in the anger, and can deal with the hatred alone, perhaps better-than the black writers who have dealt with...
...Shock Corridor also criticizes American go- gutter ideals. Its hero, obsessed with making it, tramples on others including his girl friend- a stripper, a social outcast. Dreams of her calling to him help drive him insane. The asylum's other inmates are even more explicitly victims of social contradictions-anti-Communism and race hatred...
...sonnets that you published by Claude McKay ("Outcast" in your remarkable Art Special, "Black Lamps: White Mirrors" [Oct. 3] and "If We Must Die" in the Oct. 24th issue): We are sorry to see that you did not give the customary credit to the publisher...