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will make available $100 cash prizes each for literary and drama criticism iri NEGRO DIGEST (BLACK WORLD magazine . The Richard Wright-Le 96 HERBERT C . JOHNSON Roi Jones Awards will be made possible through grants from Addison Gayle Jr ., critic and anthologist, and Clayton Riley, drama critic . BRENDA M . TORRES March 1970 NEGRO DIGEST
~~~ .bra ~~ l ~can: ~ xa rd~~~za r~~~s~brrdr When NEGRO DicEST was founded back in 1942, the world was very different . The United States was at war with Germany and Japan, and even most Americans of African descent accepted the contention that the American involvement in the war was aimed at "saving democracy" although, in fact, we had never experienced that highly prized way of life . We somehow managed even to accept that the Nazi brand of racism was somehow more virulent than the American brand that we knew first-hand . Perhaps we reasoned that, under the circumstances, it was better to bear the oppression and the psychological maiming imposed on us by the American system than to permit the ascendancy of a nation which herded its hated humans into gas ovens . It was a time of danger and struggle for us, just as all our times on this continent have been, but the appearance of NEGRO DIGEST was one of the events which signalled a hopeful new beginning : it marked the first time in the history of this country that a commercial magazine unrelated to any supporting national organization had been successfully launched for a non-white audience . The magazine was frankly patterned on the very popular Readers Digest, and neither that fact nor the fact of the name itself brought anything other than a glow of pride from Black people . NEGRO DIGEST March 1970 q7
- Page 246 and 247: standards and values that commit ou
- Page 248 and 249: "Ah thought he could be grateful fo
- Page 250 and 251: Gray Ward . . . Historian Benjamin
- Page 252 and 253: liberation struggle against Europea
- Page 254 and 255: his reputation tramped in front of
- Page 256 and 257: "Naw, the cash draw wuz clean, but
- Page 258 and 259: screen out those professors, white
- Page 260 and 261: elative to other areas in Californi
- Page 262 and 263: power to purge when necessary . Qui
- Page 264 and 265: all of those persons who are not on
- Page 266 and 267: Broken down, here is how I see this
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- Page 270 and 271: tion. (This would not exempt the ex
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- Page 274 and 275: Each community will select/elect a
- Page 276 and 277: ing the amount of ivory tower energ
- Page 278 and 279: Before this issue can be systematic
- Page 280 and 281: of a positive identity with whom th
- Page 282 and 283: This paradigm was to provide the fo
- Page 284 and 285: lion statements and social studies
- Page 286 and 287: s Wilcox, Preston . The Black Unive
- Page 288 and 289: An Assessment ~la~k t~ ~~ ~ ~ i~ ~u
- Page 290 and 291: and compartmentalization . We canno
- Page 292 and 293: lishment. Drum and Spear Press is a
- Page 294 and 295: ~erepecEive~- On writers and writin
- Page 298 and 299: But times and the world have change
- Page 300: Mod, Modish and Militant Keeling on
will make available $100 cash prizes<br />
each for literary and drama criticism<br />
iri NEGRO DIGEST (BLACK WORLD<br />
magazine . The Richard Wright-Le<br />
96<br />
HERBERT C . JOHNSON<br />
Roi Jones Awards will be made possible<br />
through grants from Addison<br />
Gayle Jr ., critic and anthologist,<br />
and Clayton Riley, drama critic .<br />
BRENDA M . TORRES<br />
March 1970 NEGRO DIGEST
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