Word: umbra
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arts and Black power movements as well as various underground integrated political-cultural organizations. He served as editor of Advance, a Newark, New Jersey weekly and then moved on to found the East Village Other, the first non-conventional newspaper to achieve national circulation. He also participated in the Umbra Workshop, a Black writers' group which "began the influorescene of Black Poetry as well as other recent styles of Afro-American writing," he says. In 1966, he published his first novel, The Free-Lance Pallbearers to enthusiastic critical reception...