IN RESPONSE to RACIST RHETORIC by Lloyd Abrahams That Which Will Produce a Sequence of Deals with Cultures Not Skin Colors
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BACKO N NTO Si rQUE PASA'I 3/24/94 - Thursday- Ca- 4/5/94 - Tuesday- Ven- will show a movie in Javits 4/15/94 - Friday - CSO reer Womans Lunch. To be dors in Fireside Lounge room 103 at 7:30 pm. Weekend Fest. To be held held in the Union Ballroom from ll-7pm. Panel Dis- in the Fireside Lounge from from 11-3. cussion in Fireside lounge 4/8/94 - Friday- Spades 9-5pm. after vendors leave. Topic: Tournament/Games night 3/25/94 - Friday - Last The Hebrew Isrealites vs. in the Uniti Cultural Cen- 4/15/94 - Friday - CSO day of classes. Spring Break The Nation Of Islam. ter. Cultural Show. To be held begins. in the Union Auditorium 4/6/94 - Wednesday - 4/11/94 - Monday - Na- from 5-10pm. 4/4/94 -Monday- Classes Black History Month Ex- tive North American Art- begin. travaganza in the Union ists. To be held in the 4/15/94 - Friday - CSO Auditorium at 7:30 pm. Union Art Gallery from 12- Party from 10-2am. 4/4/94 - Monday - FSA 4. Will be held until 4/22. and SU&A FLea Market 4/7/94 - Thursday- Afri- 4/16/94 - Saturday- CSO can-American Cultural 4/13/94 - Wednesday - Semiformal. To be held in 4/4/94- Monday-AASO's .Fest. Food, Music, and SAB Cultural event. To be the Student Union Ball- poetry reading in the Uniti Vendors from 9-7pm. held in the Fireside Lounge room from 7pm-2am. Cultural Center at 7:00. 4/7/94 - Thurday- ASU from 11:30- 3:30pm. NEWS BRIEFS International News: and the Inkatha Freedom Party. new jobs and to collect additional rev- Civil Rights Events" New York Times: March 9, 1994 enues to reduce foreign debt by 50 per- International News: cent. According to Amsterdam News, "63 in South Africa Die in Train Wreck" Carib News: (week ending March 15, on Saturday, March 12, Bill Duke , an 1994) National News: actor and a director, showed his face at As reported by the New York "Election in Antigua and Barbada - A The New York Amsterdam News: March Spikes Joint, with Spike Lee to presenthis Times, on March 8th, the commuter train New BirdReplaces 19, 1994 newly published book, "Black Light; the in Natal, South Africa carrying approxi- 'Old Bird' Prime Minister" African-American Hero". mately 800 exclusively Blackpassengers, "The President of United States came to Spikes Jointis a famous hip hop and props derailed and 'jack-knifed' into a wooded According to Carib News, in call NY- 2000 at United Negro College clothing store on Deklb Ave. in Brooklyn, NY. There were crowds overflowing to gorge, killing 63 people and injuring 370 Antigua and Barbada the Antigua Labor Fund dinner" purchase the book and to get autographs people. The train was going from the Party (ALP), which has been in power from Bill Duke. suburb of Cato Ridge to Durban, and it since 1977, led for the first time by Lester President Clinton attended The book, "Black Light" repre- seems that there are more passengers Bird, is again ruling for another 5 years UNCF (United Negro College Fund) sents 'cultural heroes covering various trapped among the wreckage. after beating the opponent United Pro- Golden Anniversary dinner on March 10. kinds of professionals, from art and litera- According to the surviving pas- gressive Party, led by Baldwin Spencer. During the dinner, he gave a brief speech ture to athletes, explorers, mediaperform- sengers, the train had accelerated extraor- Lester Bird is the son of Vere on his hope in seeing all Americans par- ers and social activists' who contributed dinarily before it derailed, and the rail Cornwall Bird Sr., the Prime Minister of ticipate in the growth and development of to the black community. Bill Duke also road officials and some political parties the country whose party has dominated the nation, as well as give strong support expressed in his book,"the need to present speculate a sabotage by one of the groups the country's politics for the past 50 years. of education and of the UNCF. facts from our own perspective and to opposing the first free election coming Antigua and Barbada have been President Clinton took pictures cease being the door mat for somebody this April. The police, however, deny the called "the Bird Land" or "the Bird Dy- with 41 college presidents, signed auto- else" and concluded with his motto, "True possibility of sabotage and are investigat- nasty", plagued with endless scandals and graphs and chatted amicably with strang- power is an individual's ability to move ing. Since last mid-December, there have corruption over the year. Many of the ers as if they were acquaintances, accord- from failure to failure with no loss of been dozens of reports of bombing of 25,000 Antiguans and Barbadians who ing to the Amsterdam News. enthusiasm"(Winston Churchill). railways, power pylons and African Na- voted believe that the country's corrup- Publishing a small encyclopedia tional Congress offices by mostly white tion during Vere Bird's ruling can be listing of historical events and people that separatists in the predominantly white explained by his benevolent demeanor Local News: have great influence on African-Ameri- Orange Free State and Transvaal. and declining enthusiasm over the years. The New York Amsterdam News: March can societies and individuals has been Natal, however, is perhaps a Now, Lester Bird is busy mak- 12, 1994 Bill's dream. battle ground between two political ing promises to enforce a new economic "Actor Bill Duke Writes Book About groups, the African National Congress program which will create about 9400 jJQDLC NBLAC\ WOIRLDD FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL 632 - 6494 i • ..... .__ • ~ ~ ~6....1_ 6 4...l.I . l 1 ~sasl~msmc~sre~saa~sIrmmrarse~~---- ----------~--------------------------~-- 3 CK"WoRLD Are Women of Color Celebrated in Women's History Month? by Darren E. Roberts pean women were socialized to be sub- I interviewed the programmer of History program. She replied, "What missive to men, African societies were the International Women's History cal- makes you think that there isn't some- March is a month which comes egalitarian. Men and women were not ender, Connie Kopleman. When I asked thing in there about women of color." in like a lion but goes out like a lamb. only valued equally in African house- Kopleman the reason as to why there was As an African American male However, March is also International holds, motherhood was thought of to be such a small representation of African, student I noticed that the only courses Women's History Month. The purpose honorable among Africans. During the Latin, Asian and Middle Eastern women being offered by the women's studies of Women's History Month is to acknowl- African slave trade African women were she replied. "I think that some of these program are mostly geared towards edge the importance of women and their valued more than African men among programs are going on without them be- women of European extraction. I would contributions to global history. Unfortu- Arabs, Africans, and European slave trad- ing on the calender. For the simple reason like to be taught the hardships as well as nately, women have suffered the eco- ers. that I need to get this information to the the contributions of African sisters and nomic, political, and social hardships of a African American women printer by the end of December and when colored women in history. The only course world controlled by men. However, there workedhard in the fields alongside Black everybody isrushing to gohomeforChrist- which is cross listed with the Women are growing concerns women of color men during slavery. She raised the slave mas vacation they don't want to think Studies program is African American have raised in regard to the plight of owner's children and managed his house- about the spring. So then, [at] the last Women's Literature, which is taught by colored women. Although White women hold as well as her own. After slavery, minute I [contact] all the clubs and sorori- theDirector of Africana Studies, Dr.Floris are faced with sexism in the work place, African American women worked in the ties, reminding them of Women's History Cash. they do not experience what African homes of White families and were deter- Month and to plan something and some- It is imperative for African American women encounter on a daily mined to uplift their family as well as their times they call me." women to know their history and struggle basis such as institutional racism and sex- race. Although Kopleman stated that in a nation which has declared war on her ism. During my viewing of the the response of clubs and organizations brother, sister, mother and father. You Women from European ances- Women's History Month calender I came has been better this year, I expressed to have been enslaved, raped and battered by try have embraced feminism not as an under the understanding that there was her that even though many students are in a cruel and unjust institution, yet you still ideology which loathes men but an ideol- only one scheduled event that concerned a hurry before the winter intersession, it is survive. You have bore many great men ogy which brings women together and African American women. The only pro- still important for returning and transfer and women like Ramses, Malcolm, Harriet teaches their importance in a male ruled gram which was on the calender was students to be aware that minority women Tubman and Sojourner Truth.