Professor Emeritus Eugene Terry Passes On

SPRING 2008

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PROFESSOR EMERITUS EUGENE TERRY PASSES ON Drawing by Nelson Stevens At both u institu- D Bois tions, he INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Department was co-founder inspired MESSAGE FROM THE 2 Eugene by his CHAIR Terry died students on Jan. 9 at no less FACULTY NEWS 3 his home than in Amherst, they where he were AN EVENING WITH THE 4 was sus- inspired DU BOIS DEPARTMENT tained over by him; the long pe- Front Row (l-r): Professors Eugene Terry and his wife Esther, Chester Davis, and and he SCHEDULE OF EVENTS 5 riod of his Bill Strickland. Back Row (l-r): Professors Nelson Stevens and John Bracey. came to illness accept that by Esther Terry, his wife of 41 years; their son, teaching was his special calling. Over the years, ALUMNI LINES 5 Jules Michael; and other family members and many of his students have credited his patience, his friends. gentleness, and his honest criticism with having He taught writing and Afro-American Lit- contributed to their various successes. “THE WAR ON TERROR,” 6 erature in the Du Bois Department from 1978 In 1964, on the advice of his mentor and friend, BY BILL STRICKLAND through 1989, when his declining health led to Sterling Brown, Eugene enrolled in the English his retirement. Department at the University of Massachusetts, He was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. in 1928, the Amherst, to prepare for a Ph.D. in English under GRADUATE STUDENT 7 only child of Lulu B. and Floyd Terry. With the guidance of Professor Sidney Kaplan. During NEWS AND VIEWS Floyd Terry having died some months before that period, Professor Brown also encouraged sev- his son's birth, Lulu raised Eugene as a single eral others of his students to study with Sidney parent. She greatly influenced his lifelong com- Kaplan, whom Professor Brown held in highest mitment to education, his love of music, and regard as a scholar on the subject of Afro- his insistence on social justice and equality. American life and letters. Among those others Art led to the creation of his own award- were Bernard Bell, Michael Thelwell, and Esther winning puppets and apple dolls. His talent Alexander, who later became Eugene’s wife. was noted and praised by Leonard Baskin, with Encouraged by Professors Kaplan and his col- whom he enjoyed a long and warm friendship. league, Jules Chametzky, Eugene was among that Always an avid reader, Eugene discovered group of graduate students who established an the work of Sterling A. Brown, the African Afro-American Studies Program within the Eng- American poet and social critic, while he was lish Department. In 1970, that program became the in high school and determined that he would W. E. B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American attend Howard University in Washington, Studies that today is one of the oldest and most D.C., where Professor Brown was a member of respected such departments in the country. Prior to We’re on the Web at the faculty of the English Department. joining the faculty of the Afro-American Studies www.umass.edu/afroam At Howard, Eugene was awarded both a department, Eugene had taught at Hampshire Col- B.A. and a Master's degree, with his thesis, lege, where he was a member of the Five-College Phone: 413-545-2751 “Four Major American Folk Heroes,” directed Black Studies Committee. Fax: 413-545-0628 by Professor Brown. His unwavering love of family and his endur- Upon graduating from Howard, Eugene ing relationships with former students throughout taught for a brief period at Southern University the United States and beyond will remain an im- Volume 1, Number 2 in Baton Rouge, L.A., before accepting a post portant part of his legacy. A private funeral and in the English Department at Johnson C. burial took place in Warrenton, N.C., but a memo- Smith University in Charlotte, N.C., which rial service is planned for the UMass campus in the lasted for seven years. spring. PAGE 2 DU BOIS LINES

MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR —by Amilcar Shabazz Never do we ask “who are we really?”

it is dog eat dog. We are encouraged to he white man is very clever…. He has put a knife on the things hate foreigners with their alien languages that held us together and we and ways who illegally enter the country T have fallen apart. —Chinua to take our jobs and ruin the supposedly Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. united state of the culture of the USA. Never do we ask “who are we really?” African people from Chad to Haiti to Colombia to the U.S.A. are experienc- Alvin Poussaint & UMass alum Bill ing hard times. “Structural adjust- Cosby came to campus and talked about ments ,” the sub-prime market crisis, their new book Come On People: On the the gross funneling of wealth into the Path from Victims to Victors. Some of our hands of the already super-rich, wars students charged them up for the way and rumors of war form the knife that their work silences a critique of poverty The Honorable Chinua Achebe on his 77th severs the things that have held us to- and injustice in favor of the old blame birthday in New York City at the National gether. More & more than ever before the victim rhetoric. Arts Club’s Tilden Mansion

A fascinating exploration of the history of the UMass Amherst W.E.B. Du Bois De- partment of Afro-American Studies. En- tertaining and insightful interviews and archival footage bring to life the debates, achievements and inner life of a department that has included such public intel- lectuals as Shirley Graham Du Bois, Chinua Achebe, and James Baldwin, and world-class musicians and cultural icons such as Archie Shepp and Max Roach. Co-sponsored by the W.E.B. Du Bois De- partment of Afro-American Studies, UMass Amherst. Ernest Allen, Jr., introduced this world premiere. THE NEWSLETTER OF THE W.E.B. DU BOIS DEPARTMENT OF AFRO-AMERICAN STUDIES AT UMASS AMHERST PAGE 3 FACULTY NEWS has published Professor Tracy’s lengthy contextual- rofessor Steven Tracy gave a two-hour ized chronology of Langston Hughes on its website at P presentation on Harlem Renaissance “http://www2.ku.edu/~lhcaas/”. The chronology music and literature at a Black History month places events of Hughe’s life in the context of other program on January 23rd at the UMass Am- important events taking place in the world at the herst campus featuring music and literature on same time. video and recordings and in live performance. He has been selected as a plenary speaker for a Professor James Smethurst participated on a panel conference entitled August Wilson: The Second at the “Women in the Black Revolt Mini- Half of the Cycle to be held on April 11-12th. Conference,” Brooklyn College, March 5-6th. Also, The paper will subsequently be published in he delivered a paper entitled, “Women in Atlanta’s Black Arts Movement,” at the Modern Language August Wilson—Completing the Cycle, edited Association Annual Convention, Winter 2007. by Alan Nadel for the University of Iowa Press. Professor Strickland gave a public lecture at Florida Professor Ekwueme Michael Thel-

Atlantic University in Boca Raton on “Black History well with his children Mikiko and Professor Tracy will be delivering a paper and and Black Politics: Past, Present, and Future.” Later Chinua at the National Arts Club performing on harmonica at the International that month, on February 11th, he was awarded a Conference on Richard Wright in Paris, France plaque by Virginia for State University (VSU) in on June 18-20th. He will also be performing recognition of his support for VSU’s Jim Crow Ex- Charles de Kay, the literary and art critic for in July at the Behringer-Crawford Museum: hibit, Hateful Things, a two week traveling art exhibit the New York Times for eighteen years, founded the National Arts Club in 1898. The History In Motion in Covington, KY, with his “of pictures, signs and items from the late nineteenth century to the present that embody the terrible effects Club’s mission is to stimulate, foster and pro- Cincinnati band, Steve Tracy and the Crawling of Jim Crow. Professor Strickland also gave the mote public interest in the arts and educate the Kingsnakes, and continues to play a couple of keynote address at the opening ceremony. American people in the fine arts. times monthly with the King Bees in the Am- herst area. Professor Thelwell was invited to speak at the Na- Professor Thelwell gave a lecture at Connecti- tional Arts Club at its Black Tie affair on November cut College in New London entitled, “James The Langston Hughes Center for African 16th, where the eminent writer, scholar, and former Baldwin: A Prophet Without Honor? The American Studies at the University of Kansas Du Bois Department faculty member Chinua Achebe Black Writer and the Politics of Literature in received its Gold Medal of Honor for Literature. American Culture,” on April 7th, 2008.

lead a discussion of his book The Years. Drawing on the knowledge sponse to an initiative by Tanya P rofessor John Bracey and Sacred Revolt: The Muskogee’s gained as co-editor of the Papers of Mears (Alumnus ‘05) now an assis- Joyce Vincent were invited to Struggle for a New World which is the NAACP, John Bracey partici- tant professor in their History Depart- Brown University to address Pro- one of the required readings. The pated in the scholar-activist sessions ment. Tanya sends her regards to all. fessor defeat of the Muskogee in 1813- that included Herb Boyd, Scot The students were interest and en- Rhett 1814 ended the largest uprising of Brown, Lorenzo Morris and Patricia gaged, and on display in the library Jones’ Native peoples in the nation’s his- Sullivan as scholars and Kweisi was an outstanding collection of class tory, the largest loss of Native lives, Mfume, Mildred Roxborough, Mel African art and artifacts. William P. Native and the largest lost of land in the King and Hilary Shelton represent- “Doc” Robinson, Sr. an old friend Southest. ing the NAACP. Denton Watson from Bracey’s youth on Howard Ameri- wore both his hats as ex-staff mem- University’s campus has a building can November 5th: Professor Bracey ber, now historian. The NAACP named after him, and his papers and a and appeared on Channel 40 News as a Hollywood Bureau led by Vic Bul- portrait are in the library archives. In African commentator on the significance of lock and his staff is producing and 1969, “Doc” Robinson became the Ameri- the noose and lynching in the his- directing the Civil Rights Schools as first African American elected to the can tory of African Americans. The part of a larger project to create by Virginia legislature since Reconstruc- Rela- story involved the local high school 2009 a film commemorating the tion. All in all, a wonderful trip. tions. and the response to what was 100th anniversary of the NAACP’s Bracey thought to be a noose produced by a founding. It is the Hollywood con- February 21st Professor Bracey and Vincent have used Professor student. nection that enabled the participants received a certificate from the United Jones’ writings in their course and to attend a pre-release screening of States Army Corps of Engineers, have exchanged ideas and poten- December 7-8: Professor Bracey Denzel Washington and Oprah New England District in appreciation tial course materials with him over participated in the third segment of Winfrey’s “The Great Debaters.” A for participation as a keynote speaker the years. While at Brown we had the NAACP Civil Rights School. final segment of the Civil Rights at their 2008 Black History Month the opportunity to dine with Aisha The ““Schools” are structured as a School will be held at N.Y.U. in Celebration. Rahman former director of the combination of free flowing discus- April. John Bracey expects to New Africa House Cultural Cen- sions between scholars and NAACP participate in that one also. February 27th: Professor Bracey ter. She is still writing—plays and activists and leaders, dialogue with was a keynote speaker at the MCI a novel—and sends her regards to college students of the hip-hop February 7th: as part of the OAH Shirley Correctional Facility where all who shared her stay in the Val- generation, and individual inter- Distinguished Lecture Program he spoke on “the History of the Black ley. views focused on specific aspects of John Bracey visited Norfolk State Intellectual; and their importance October 31st: Dean Joel Martin the history of the NAACP. Held at University. The lecture entitled within the Black Liberation Move- attended AfroAm 397B Native Harvard University this segment “Black Power Scholarship: New ment” with particular focus on Americans/African Americans to was devoted to the Roy Wilkins Paths and Deadends” was in re- W.E.B. Du Bois. PAGE 4 THE NEWSLETTER OF THE W.E.B. DU BOIS DEPARTMENT OF AFRO-AMERICAN STUDIES AT UMASS AMHERST AN EVENING WITH THE W. E. B. DU BOIS n celebra- Hand, in Boston I tion of in 1996, Chris- African- tine Temin wrote American His- in The Boston tory Month, on Globe that: “His February 21st handling is virtu- the Depart- osic, his colors ment of Afro- dazzling. He has American become one of Studies and the great Ameri- the University can watercolor- Store pre- ists of the twenti- sented a multi- eth century, as media presen- much master of tation. After the medium as the event both Homer was in the faculty and nineteenth.” local authors Members of the Afro-American Studies Department: (top row l-r) Christopher Tinson, Thomas Edge, Jonathan Fender- Yarde says, in will be avail- son, Jason Hendrickson and Rebecca Hasson. (bottom row l-r) David Swiderski, James Carroll, Allia Matta, Tricia describing the able to sign Loveland, McKinley Melton, Keli Stewart and Amilcar Shabazz, Professor and Chair. aesthetic motif of copies of a selection of their most recent Three graduate students from the depart- Mojo Hand, that his general notion of it is: books. ment, Keli Stewart, McKinley Melton, ". . . Some kind of charm or spell that is Professor John H. Bracey, Jr., and Wally and Jason Hendrickson gave readings sometimes used for healing, sometimes for Swist, the General Book Manager of the from their own poetry as well as from other purposes." University Store, collaborated in the prominent African-Americans. “It is illusive,” Yarde continues, “and it planning of the event. Ron Welburn, a Professor of English is not something that can be described in a James Carroll opened the event by at UMass since 1992, who is of Gingaskin linear way. For me, it was a question of playing an original jazz composition and and Assateague/Cherokee/African Ameri- putting some things together that are ran- the King Bees provided the coda for the can heritage, read from his poetry. Wa- dom that can be put together for the pur- evening’s rich agenda by performing tercolor artist Richard Yarde delivered a poses of healing.” blues numbers. The King Bees, featuring lecture with slides regarding his painting, Authors and members of the Graduate Professor Steven Tracy on vocals and entitled “Ringshout.” Alona H. Horn, in Faculty of the UMass Afro-American harmonica, were a crowd favorite two an article in American Visions, refers to Studies Program include: Ernest Allen, Jr.; years ago when the event was last held. Yarde’s painting as work that “defies the John H. Bracey, Jr.; A. Yemisi Jimoh; The new Department Chair, Professor concept that watercolor paintings should Amilcar Shabazz; Manisha Sinha; James Amilcar Shabazz, served as keynote be small, charming renderings of land- Smethurst; William Strickland; Esther M. speaker for the event, and delivered a scapes or flowers.” At the unveiling of A. Terry; Michael Thelwell; Steven Tracy; carousel of thought on Africana Studies. Yarde’s series of watercolors, Mojo and Robert Paul Wolff.

Ph.D. Student Keli Stewart and Professors Joseph Skerrett and Professors John Bracey (left), Ph.D. her son Jupiter. Student Jason Hendrickson (center) Amilcar Shabazz and Michael Thelwell (right).

THE NEWSLETTER OF THE W.E.B. DU BOIS DEPARTMENT OF AFRO-AMERICAN STUDIES AT UMASS AMHERST PAGE 5 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS FEBRUARY APRIL 2/1 Five Colleges Black Studies and African Studies Get- 4/23 *Film: Lieux Saints (Sacred Places) introduced by filmmaker Together at the Red Barn, Hampshire College. Jean-Marie Teno. UMass Amherst, 7:30 p.m., Room 137, 2/21 An Evening with the Du Bois Department, 7:00 p.m. Memorial School of Management. Hall, UMass Amherst. 4/23 Keli Stewart: Poetry and Short Stories, Augusta Savage Gallery 2/23 Trip to Du Bois Homesite in Great Barrington with faculty, staff New Africa House, UMass Amherst. and students. 4/25 National HipHop Conference: Triggering Change: HipHop, 2/28 4th Annual W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture with Arnold Rampersad, Media, Justice and Social Responsibility. School of Manage Lower Level, Du Bois Library. Ment, UMass Amherst. 4/26 Body Politics directed by Keli Stewart. An original production about women of color and body image. MARCH 4/30 *Film: Look Back and Wonder: The Rise of Black Studies at 3/6 Book signing at Food For Thought Bookstore. Contested UMass Amherst introduced by Director and Professor Democracy by Manisha Sinha and Penny Von Eschen. Ernest Allen. 7:30 p.m., Room 137, School of Management. 3/19 NCBS conference at the Downtown Renaissance Hotel in Atlanta, GA. See www.ncbsonline.org for details. MAY 3/25 Max Roach Memorial. See our website for details. 5/3 Eugene Terry Memorial Celebration, Memorial Hall. 5/3 Scholars of the 21st Century End-of-Year Conference Campus Center, UMass Amherst. APRIL 5/13 Last Day of Classes!! 4/2 *Film: Culture of War introduced by Directory James Der Derian. 5/16 Retirement Celebration for Robert Paul Wolff! UMass Amherst, 8 p.m., Rm 137 School of Management. Marriott Center, Campus Center 11th Floor 4/9 *Film: Darfur Now! introduced by Director Ted Braun. Amherst 5/23 Graduate and Stockbridge Commencement. College, 7:30 p.m., Stirn Auditorium. 5/23 Class of 2008—Graduation Celebration 4/16 *Film: Black Houston: Digital Storytelling introduced by filmmaker CCEBMS Library, 2nd Floor, New Africa House. Carroll Parrott Blue. UMass Amherst, 7:30 p.m., Room 137, School of 5/24 Undergraduate Commencement.

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Dr. Christopher Lehman (‘02) Dr. Shawn Alexander (‘04) Assistant Professor, History, St. Cloud Assistant Professor, African and African American University. Studies, University of Kansas, has been appointed as The Colored Cartoon has been published Interim Director of the Langston Hughes Center for Afri- and A Critical History of Soul Train on can American Studies. Professor Alexander’s essay, Television is due for publication by “Vengeance Without Justice, Injustice Without Retribu- McFarland & Company this spring. tion: The Afro-American Council’s Struggle Against Racial Violence,” has been published in the Great Plains Quarterly and won the 2008 Frederick C. Luebke Award for outstanding regional scholarship. His forthcoming anthology on T. Thomas Fortune is scheduled for publication in June. He is also completing a larger mono- graph on African American civil rights activity in the post -Reconstruction era for the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Dr. Stephanie Y. Evans (‘03) Professor John Bracey’s Assistant Professor, African American Studies and daughter Kali and grand- Women’s Studies, University of Florida in Gainesville. daughter Zora! Congratulations to Chris and Professor Evans has recently published an article entitled his wife, Yolanda, on having a “Women of Color in American Higher Education” in the baby boy, Erik, on Feb. 9th!! National Education Association’s Journal Thought & Action (Fall 2007). Congratulations to Keli Stewart and Dr. Jennifer Jensen-Wallach (‘04) Chris Martin on Assistant Professor, History, Georgia College and having a baby boy, State University. Professor Wallach’s book “Closer to Khyet Solomon, on the Truth” is forthcoming by University of Georgia Press. April 2nd.

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PAGE 6 THE WAR ON TERROR BLOWBACK: We Are Not Safer William (Bill) Strickland teaches political science in Opinion piece excerpted from the cover story of Issue 255 of The Black Commentator the Du Bois Dept & is on of (11/29/07) the Editorial Board of The Black Commentator, a By Bill Strickland (The full essay, “The What these attacks all have in common weekly Internet magazine Runaway Politics of Insanity,” can be found is that they were directed against states focused on issues facing African Americans and their at www.blackcommentator.com) and individuals seen as collaborators allies in the struggle for with the United States which means hose people who mistakenly be- social and economic justice. that we are now living in a new age; lieve that George Bush’s John T facing a new peril whose guiding princi- Wayneism has made us safer are delu- ple seems to be: Collaboration with the military tribunals, elimination of habeas sional because exactly the opposite is U.S. = Death. corpus, unilateralism, etc. Or as one Brit- true. In point of fact, terrorist attacks ish newspaper asked after the 2004 elec- have increased not decreased since One sees that equation especially at tion: “How can 59 million people be so 9/11! work in Iraq where Iraqis working for stupid?” the United States, go to great lengths to According to a study conducted last hide that fact from their fellow Iraqis. But the Islamic world is more potently year, NYU’s Center on Law & Security Indeed many, to save their lives, have aggrieved — Remember that the latest found that fatal terrorist attacks around been forced, like their two and half mil- estimates of civilians killed in Iraq range the world had increased over 600% lion fellow-citizens, to flee to Jordan from 600,000 to 1.2 million or ten to since the US invaded Iraq!! and Syria who now, unable to support twenty percent as many as the number of They occurred in the Madrid train sta- the massive exodus, have closed their Jews killed by the Nazis in the Holo- tion in 2004,on London buses in 2005, borders. caust. But few Americans put these and in a foreigner-frequented nightclub deaths into context or call them by their in Bali, Indonesia where “An unprecedented political movement is needed to save us…” proper name: war Americans were known crimes. And what ani- to hang out-- but wound up killing mus do you think the relatives and Again, to reiterate the point about what mostly Australians. (When Bush subse- friends and co-religionists of these de- is now categorically different…In dec- quently visited Indonesia, his handlers, ceased bear toward the United States? ades past those nation states alleged to fearful for his safety, flew him back thir- be “enemies” by the United States, like Well, we don’t have to guess because teen hours to the safe haven of Hawaii Russia, Cuba, China, North Korea, etc. one terrorist group has asserted that rather than risk his spending the night always distinguished between the Muslims have the right to kill four mil- in that most Muslim land. Indeed there United States government and the lion Americans, including two million is nowhere in the world--except in American people but that is no longer children, in proportionate revenge for Rumsfeld’s “New Europe,” or in care- the case. We are now no longer dealing those whom Bush has killed in Iraq and fully sanitized Republican events here with nation states but with mobile Afghanistan. So are we safer? I don’t at home--that Bush can go where he is groups and individuals who perceive think so. not the target of outraged protests.) America to be what the late Ayatollah Is it not clear therefore that the depths to There have also been terrorist attacks in Khomeini of Iran dubbed her: The which American political culture-and its Saudi Arabia …on a housing com- Great Satan, and perceive Americans in political system-have sunk cannot be pound where Americans used to reside general to be as culpable as their gov- overcome by conventional politics; that as well as attacks in Pakistan, Egypt, ernment. an unprecedented political movement is Jordan, Kuwait et al ,and, of course, in Why is that you ask? Well, there are needed to save us from—and empower Afghanistan where the suicide bombing several reasons. One is due to the fail- us to prevail over—the fools and fanatics strategy, perfected in Iraq, has now ure of the Democratic party to make it who now rule, or aspire to rule, over been exported with lesson-learned per- clear to the world that Bush stole elec- us…and who, in supporting or capitulat- fection. tions 2000 and 2004.Thus, despite the ing to Bush and Cheney’s imperial de- recent rebuttal by the women’s bridge mentia, have placed us team in China, that “We didn’t vote for all, wittingly and unwit- Bush,” most of the world believes that a tingly, in mortal danger? majority of Americans support Bush Δ and his policies of rendition, torture, THE NEWSLETTER OF THE W.E.B. DU BOIS DEPARTMENT OF AFRO-AMERICAN STUDIES AT UMASS AMHERST PAGE 7 GRADUATE STUDENT NEWS & VIEWS

Chris Tinson, who is hard at work on his dissertation research on Black radicalism and the Liberator magazine, Preface to “Rethinking Pan- 1960-1971, has also been Africanism for the Twenty-First Cen- teaching two courses this se- tury” mester. A course he designed that is modeled after Professor Ernie Allen’s Black Power “The Voice of the Black Protest course is entitled Black Radi- Movement”: Notes on the Liberator calism in the U.S. and Beyond: Magazine and Black Radicalism in 1960s and 1970s, and is being the Early 1960s/ Christopher Tinson offered at Hampshire College. At the University of Connecti- cut, Storrs he is teaching Intro- “Black Writers of the World, Unite!”: duction to African American Negotiating Pan-African Politics of Studies. Along with fellow W.E.B. Du Bois Depart- Cultural Struggle in Afro-Latin ment comrades Jonathan Fenderson and Anthony America/ Anthony Ratcliff Ratcliff, Chris co-edited and wrote an article for the current issue of the Black Scholar (see cover at right). In addition, Chris is one of the lead organizers of an “Wherever I’ve Gone, I’ve Gone upcoming conference that will feature activists and Voluntarily”: Ayi Kwei Armah’s artists from around the country; Triggering Change: Hip Radical Pan-African Itinerary/ -Hop, Media Justice and Social Responsibility, which Jonathan B. Fenderson will be held April 25th (Food for Thought Books) & April 26th at the Isenberg School of Management. For more information about the conference, please go to: The W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies would like to acknowledge the http://www.triggeringchange08.blogspot.com/. participation of several of its graduate students and faculty at a recent conference held at the University of Connecticut, The Harlem Renaissance Revisited: Politics, Arts & Letters. H. David Lucander was awarded the Gilder Lehrman Research Fellow- Zahra Caldwell, Jason Hendrickson, Allia Matta, and McKinley Melton presented their re- ship for the Spring 2008 semester. search on a panel entitled “Named and Being Named: Womenspace, Gender, Topos, and Self David is conducting research for his Definition in the Harlem Renaissance.” Dr. Ousmane Power-Greene, Assistant Professor in dissertation entitled, “It is a New History at Clark University, shared his current research on Hubert Harrison and New Negro Kind of Militancy: The March on Black Literary Criticism. Department Chair Amilcar Shabazz, Ph.D., was also in attendance, Washington Movement, 1940- 1946,” at the Schomburg Center for presenting his work on the Black Press and the New Negro. The conference, which featured Research in Black Culture in New thoughts and reflections from poet Amiri Baraka and film director Spike Lee, was held from March 27-29 in Storrs, CT.

Thomas Edge April 11th, 2008 “The Social Responsibility of the Administrator”: Mordecai Wyatt Johnson and the Dilemma of Black Leadership

Daniel McClure March 7th, 2008 “A Woman of Action: Ms. Elma Lewis, the Arts and AFROAM 151 the Culture of ‘Uplift’in Roxbury, MA, 1950-1990” Literature and Culture Instructor: Kabria Baumgartner Marieta Joyner 1st Session: (June 2 - July 10) August 23rd, 2007 “Education of Deaf African Americans in Washington, D.C. and Raleigh, N.C. during the 19th and AFROAM 236 Early 20th Centuries, Through the Eyes of Two History of the Civil Rights Movement Heroes and a Shero” Instructor: McKinley Melton 2nd Session (July 14 – August 20) Zebulon Miletsky Building a Legacy: Endowed August 17, 2007 Scholarship Aids Groundbreaking Work "City of Amalgamation: Race, Marriage, Class and in Afro-American Studies Color in Boston, 1900-1930” Visit http://www.umassulearn.net for details! (March 28, 2008) CONGRATULATIONS!!!

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