Word: smiths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Zimbabwe Rhodesia moved into his official residence two weeks ago. Accompanied by a ululating crowd of followers, Bishop Abel Muzorewa rode in an ox-drawn cart to the stately white mansion -renamed from Independence House to Dzimbahwe (House of Chiefs)-that for 15 years was occupied by Ian Douglas Smith. The scene raised unsettling questions about Muzorewa's month-old multiracial government: Is it really more than an African show masking the continuation of effective white power? Is there any substance behind the pageantry...
...reforms for the country's 6 million blacks or to reduce the disproportionate share of power retained by the white minority under the new constitution. And although he offered the "hand of fellowship" to the Patriotic Front upon taking office last month, he seems as determined as Ian Smith ever was to crush the black nationalist guerrillas with military force...
...second in a series which began Friday night with an evening of black women's poetry at the Solomon Carter Fuller Center in the South End. The first reading, which also drew a standing-room-only crowd, featured the poetry of Lorde and local poets, Fahamisha Shariat Brown, Barbara Smith, Kate Rushin, and Dianna Christmas. Both evenings were supported by a number of community organizations concerned with making Boston safe for all women, including the Black Star Theatre, a Radcliffe-Harvard organization, which procured the space in Sanders...
...gathering was never forgotten. The spirits of thirteen women murdered in Boston this year as well as countless other female victims moved among the audience as it stood for a moment of silence. The brief remembrance was followed by the reading of selected passages from the journal of Barbara Smith, a member of the black feminist Combahee River Collective...
This was in some ways the hardest-hitting part of the program because of itds topicality; Smith's direct references to the series of murders served to sharpen the focus of the other outcries make that night against violence against women. Especially poignant were her musings on the lack of opportunity most black women have to escape the atmosphere of fear--"to get away, and write...