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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Boy, Girl, Black, White | 4/6/1970 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The First Lady: Pat's Bandwagon | 3/16/1970 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Golden, | Title: Genet's The Blacks: A Director's Viewpoint | 2/5/1970 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Mike Prokosch, | Title: The Moviegoer Shock Corridor at room 10-250, M.I.T., tonight, 8 and 10 p.m. | 1/19/1970 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 5, 1970 | 1/5/1970 | See Source »

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