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1 . Independent African Civilization 2 . Slavery 3 . Colonialism 4 . Neo-colonialism 5 . Independent African World Each of the areas is designed to provide the student with a knowledge of the historical, social, economic and political framework of Black existence both in this hemisphere and on the continent . The second section of the curriculum is set up to give intensive training in some of the basic skills needed to build self-reliance for Black people . These skilled areas are : 1 . Food scientists 2 . Architects 3 . Medics 4 . Engineers 5 . Black Expressionists 6 . Teachers 7 . Communications technicians There are also community seminars which are offered weekly by students or instructors at the University . The student body at Malcolm X Liberation University is made up of 40 regular day students and approximately 25 who attend the night seminars . These students represent a wide range of geographical areas from Massachusetts down the East Coast and into Mississippi . There is also a wide range in their educational backgrounds . Most of them have had some experience working in the Black community, organizing neighborhood problem 42 groups or organizing youth groups . Students with rural backgrounds have worked in such enterprises as co-ops and simple farming . Many of the students' backgrounds show that they dropped out or were asked to leave their former schools and colleges for political activism . Because of these varying backgrounds, innovative teaching and learning methods are of a necessity at the University . The Malcolm X Liberation University experience is a young one still . There have been, and there are still, some difficult hurdles to overcome . But those who are attending and working with the University are very serious about Black liberation . This seriousness is reflected in a statement which was made public prior to the official opening by Howard Fuller, the main organizer and present head of the University : "We view Malcolm X Liberation University as an integral part of the Black community ; therefore, we will be involved in any activities affecting the community . There will be neither guns nor drugs of any kind in the building . . . therefore, if this building is invaded by so-called law officers of a federal, state, or local variety on the pretext of looking for guns and dope, it will be just that-a pretext. . . . We will be about educating Black people . This building will serve as a base for that education . We will not take any invasion of it lightly . We will consider any March 1970 NEGRO DIGEST
invasion as an act of aggression against our people and we will respond accordingly ." Thus far, no response has been necessary . But the concept which the above statement embodies is always kept in the minds of the University participants . This concept is that in order to build institutions to bring about a better future for Black people, we must be constantly aware of the present day farces which seek to blunt such efforts . We think that Malcolm X Liberation University will not be stopped, but we recognize the need for the spiritual as well as the physical support of Black people wherever we may be . Chuck Hopkins, author cf the report and position paper on the Malcolm X Liberation University, is Information Officer for the University. Jihad Productions Jihad Productions in Newark (the "New Ark") has a number of publications available . Among them : Afro-Arts Anthology, featuring new work by Ed Spriggs, Joseph White, Sonia Sanchez, David Henderson, Yusef Iman, Ameer Baraka, Ben Caldwell, Q . R . Hand, Larry Neal and "anonymous yellers" ; Black Art, new poems by Ameer Baraka; Not Forever Tears, poems by Clarence Reed ; Slave Ship, a one-act play by Ameer Baraka ; Arm Yourself or Harm Yourself, a play by Ameer Bara_' :a; Militant Preacher, a one-act play by Ben Caldwell ; Praise the I ord, But Pass the Ammunition, a play by Yusef Iman ; Something Black, poems by Yusef Iman ; Black Revolutionary Songs, by Yusef Iman ; and a collection of posters . All the volumes listed above sell for $1 .00, except Slave Ship, which sells for $1 .25 . Jihad Productions also rents the following films : Black Spring; Dutchman; and The New-Ark . Jihad recordings include the following : Black and Beautiful, an album ($5 .00) ; "Black and Beautiful," a 45 rpm disc ($1 .00) ; Sonny's Time Now!, an album ( $5 .00) ; and A Black Mass, an album ($5 .00) . Information on prices, etc ., is available from Katibu at Jihad Productions, Box 663, Newark, N .J. The Spirit House Players and Movers are available for engagements by arrangement . NEGRO DIGEST March 1970 43
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1YIARCH tliBB A JOtiNSaN rl7"LICATI
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CONTENTS The Blacli University The
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Kwame Nkrumah compares the colonial
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deficiency is not sa much a shortco
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are we here? We were sent here to l
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acial group with rites and loyaltie
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might well be that, to meet the nee
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A distinguished young educator from
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come to accept the judgment . Conse
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ditional knowledge required for the
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Faculty, Curriculum, Research . . .
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passive role and assumed that the e
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ante is formidable is obvious to an
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Social Change in the Sixties THE BL
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trends in the black community to sh
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ployment rate for black youth betwe
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For Our People - Everywhere "By far
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analogues for possible study . ) We
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World publication of the Caribbean,
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make Howard "sixty per cent white"
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Simultaneously there arose a hybrid
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NEGRO DIGEST March 1968 In the days
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A Call To Concerned Black Educators
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BOOK "Great Literature i.s simply l
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the members of Miss Brooks' worksho
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BY CHRISTINE REAMS ' . . . Ifo .sat
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as Mike and Jim dashed down the ste
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"Oh, my hair i~ so curly, so curly
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one of them a good whipping, no mat
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a while . I didn't know what she me
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Since sufficient teachers cannot be
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NEW PROGRAMS AND EXPERIMENTATION Th
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TRUSTEES If I seem indifferent to t
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years when '`Christian character an
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leaders and professors posing as mi
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out of "The Punch Out" and other st
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penniless writer, he travels the ga
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No doubt about it, Mr . Williams ca
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esearch crying for the kind of clar
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lightly as Western intellectual imp
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as a white man with a similar educa
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lacks are better off, but we must a
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income blacks and better for the mi
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compared to white men had not impro
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"iON ONYE LOCKARD is a selftaught a
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Plea ForA Second Chance : Work-worn
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That something is gravely wrong wit
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THE DUKE NATURAL SET MAlR SHEEN lea
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Edgar F . Beck Vincent Hard min E .
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C®i'y~'>~' i'tw'~'~ Editor's Notes
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An Open Letter to Black Students in
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mentarily bolstered (or our minds m
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plications of such attitudes as you
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7 . Have you given serious thought
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of white institutions that there si
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Platform and Program S HL "Today we
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ism, and we are becoming aware that
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New agencies for Black education (A
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ment of a plan to hire 200 Black pr
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people in their struggle toward a c
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else suggests that the group is bac
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e established far Black students th
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A Dual Responsibility The White Uni
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a situation in a different manner w
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Black Perspective A cU~TU~~L, ~~~I~
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life-style, yet they persist in the
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plex (a viable institution in that
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The Positiveness of Separation BL~C
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white students are, except that wha
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did) to thesis students who then gr
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Roach, Harold Cruse, Rhody Mc- Coy,
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conferees attempted to eject white
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~. iii1~i-i Black Life, White "Expe
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BOOKS Black Writing : this is u, th
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Grow old? Maan! I ain't never Gonna
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answering ; "Monday. That is if tha
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at a time when the ratio of Negro d
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A Special Experience xox .a~, xi .:
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to comment that I was a typical cre
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students said, "Didn't Malcolm prea
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What I did object to was the effort
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with American education, period. Ho
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President Emeritus, Morehouse Colle
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them, there just aren't enough blac
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I cannot see the sponsorship for su
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economic changes now occurring with
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aising a question regarding in exac
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to say that "yet an irreverent revi
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Fire ; steal it, borrow it or wait
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lures and yet, in a most interestin
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and what is the right procedure for
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mentioned earlier, the whole black
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(C) Consistency of Thought and Acti
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Page 208 and 209: contradictions they entail . Furthe
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lishment. Drum and Spear Press is a
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~erepecEive~- On writers and writin
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will make available $100 cash prize
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But times and the world have change
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Mod, Modish and Militant Keeling on
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