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feature in the journal is an article on "Ibo Names and the Concept
of Death," by Ifekandu V . Umunna . The African Journal's address
is Box 6555, Washington, D . C . 20009 . . . Soulbook 7 is dedicated
to "the memories of John Coltrane, Ruby Doris Robinson, Che Guevara,
Albert Luthuli, Martin Luther King Jr . and Bobby Hutton ."
Contributors include Rolland Snellings, Abdelbaki Hermassi, Carlos
Moore and a brace of poets . Soulbook, "the quarterly journal of
revolutionary Afroamerica," is available in New York (473 W. 152nd
Street) or Berkeley, Calif . (P.O . Box 1097, postal zone 94701) .
Bobb Hamilton, who is New York editor of Soulbook, also is editor
of Black Caucus, the journal of the Association of Black Social Workers
. Black Caucus is published three times yearly (winter, spring and
fall) at 72 W. 126th Street, New York 10030. Articles in the initial
issue of the magazine are by Charles L. Sanders, Anne Carlson, Kenneth
E. Marshall, Sidney Jones, Preston R. Wilcox, Judy Beyman,
Lewis D. Armand and Mr. Hamilton . . Watu is the name of the
black student publication at Cornell University, with Don L . Lee as
faculty advisor. Contributors to the first issue of Watu are Bob Jackson,
Patricia A . Jones, Delores Smith, Sandra Hearn, Janice Willis,
Mark Walker, Reuben Munday, Yvette Patterson and Alexis Deveaux.
Mr . Lee contributed the introduction . Mr . Munday is the editor . . .
Exposures in Black is "a collection of black imagery, both visual and
literary" by Gerald L. Simmons Jr . of Detroit (10036 Broadstreet, Apt .
5-C) . The collection of four poems and some 47 photographs make
an appealing 35-page booklet, offered at $1.50 per copy . . . Black
Theater is not new, but it should be a must for black people .
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New Broadside Venture
Broadside Press' new venture is directly related to the company's
publication of black poetry. Publisher Dudley Randall has introduced
a series of tapes of poets reading the works in their volumes, an ideal
innovation for group sessions for entertaining young people . To date,
Mr . Randall has brought out three tapes : James Emanuel reading his
The Treehouse and Other Poems; Etheridge Knight reading Poems
From Prison; and Mr. Randall reading from his collection, Cities
Burning . The latter tape has an extra feature which is a major attraction
in itself . A young balladeer named Jerry Moore has set to music
two of Mr . Randall's poems, "Ballad of Birmingham" and "Dressed
All in Pink," which he sings with notable style . The tapes have been
issued in limited numbers, only 50 for each volume, all autographed
and numbered, and they augur well to become collectars' items. The
tapes sell for $S each, all elegantly encased in boxes especially designed
to match the covers of the volumes of poetry . They may be ordered
directly from the Broadside Press, 12651 Old Mill Place, Detroit,
Mich. 48238 .
gb _ March 1969 NEGRO DIGEST