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In a hot dark roomcelestial tomb all hushed and still as Death waiting life, waiting warmth Love waits-alive with oozing sweat . Crystal droplets on earth brown thighs now melt in desire's heat now flow in merging rivulets all coursing toward life's source streaming from a Black Creator smoothing his way to leap from nothingness with hot lava's potent force Black searing flesh penetrates a soft-soiled crevice inundating all in seismic surge cease rhythms . Scorched obsidion lovers tossed high by friction's force Shriek away the hush Quake the silent tomb AND LIFE FORCE COMES Heaving, Panting, Groaning it sighs Contentment Into a hot dark room terrestrial womb all hushed all still as life . l.rrecc tion -'-TENA L. LOCKETT 48 March 1968 NEGRO DIGES7
A Call To Concerned Black Educators Last Summer, David W . Kent, Director of Admissions at Lincoln University (Pennsylvania) drafted a proposal for a conference on the black American's access to higher education . In October, a black coterie of college admissions personnel caucused at the national convention of a professional association to consider their feelings of frustration and indignation-feelings which were aroused by the fact that the black representation to this convention of 1800 was typically sparse and, further, that the convention did not address itself to THEIR primary concern-black youth . Sharing an ethnic, social and professional mutuality, 12 educators discussed common concerns, exchanged philosophical views, defined their role as black professionals in higher education and concluded that, first, the issue proposed by Mr . Kent should be dealt with on a national level ; second, any resolve to expand the opportunities for black children in higher education is meaningless without a consolidated attack on the fundamental educational problems of black children AT EVERY STEP OF THE EDUCATIONAL LADDER ; and, third, the need for dialogue among-and action initiated by-black educators is overwhelming. A national conference with seminar-workshops was conceived of as the most appropriate means by which to arouse the black professional to demonstrate his concern and simultaneously to put to use our vast resources of expertise. Black educators are uniquely equipped to state what must be done in order to raise the educational achievement of black children . We must sit down "family style," realign our priorities, and mobilize to remedy the educational ills atNicting our children . The wheels were set in motion last October . In Illinois . the Association of Afro-American Educators was chartered . A steering committee was formed to lay the groundwork for a national conference to be held early this summer . Chicago will be the place ; June 6-9 the dates . We need your help . if you wish to become involved in this effort, let us hear from you TODAY . Contact Mrs . Myrna C. Adams, coordinator, National Conference Steering Committee, Association of Afro-American Educators, 72 E . 75th Street, Chicago, Ill ., 60619 . Other members of the Steering Committee for the National Conference of Afro-American Educators include : Clara B . Anthony ; Dr. Nancy L. Arnez ; Lerone Benuett Jr. ; Timuel D . Black ; Shelly Fletcher; Hoyt W. Fuller; Mildred Gladney ; Dr. Charles V . Hamilton ; Everett Hoagland ; Arnold P . Jones ; David W . Kent ; Hugh Vf . Lane ; Harold Pates ; Marvinia Randolph ; Dr. Donald H . Smith ; Anderson Thompson ; Donald Vanliew; Sylvester Williams ; Radford Wilson ; and Dr. Nathan Wright Jr. -MYRNA C . ADAMS NEGRO DIGEST March 1968 4q
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- Page 3 and 4: CONTENTS The Blacli University The
- Page 5 and 6: Kwame Nkrumah compares the colonial
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- Page 9 and 10: are we here? We were sent here to l
- Page 11 and 12: acial group with rites and loyaltie
- Page 13 and 14: might well be that, to meet the nee
- Page 15 and 16: A distinguished young educator from
- Page 17 and 18: come to accept the judgment . Conse
- Page 19 and 20: ditional knowledge required for the
- Page 21 and 22: Faculty, Curriculum, Research . . .
- Page 23 and 24: passive role and assumed that the e
- Page 25 and 26: ante is formidable is obvious to an
- Page 27 and 28: Social Change in the Sixties THE BL
- Page 29 and 30: trends in the black community to sh
- Page 31 and 32: ployment rate for black youth betwe
- Page 33 and 34: For Our People - Everywhere "By far
- Page 35 and 36: analogues for possible study . ) We
- Page 37 and 38: World publication of the Caribbean,
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- Page 43 and 44: make Howard "sixty per cent white"
- Page 45 and 46: Simultaneously there arose a hybrid
- Page 47: NEGRO DIGEST March 1968 In the days
- Page 51 and 52: BOOK "Great Literature i.s simply l
- Page 53 and 54: the members of Miss Brooks' worksho
- Page 55 and 56: BY CHRISTINE REAMS ' . . . Ifo .sat
- Page 57 and 58: as Mike and Jim dashed down the ste
- Page 59 and 60: "Oh, my hair i~ so curly, so curly
- Page 61 and 62: one of them a good whipping, no mat
- Page 63 and 64: a while . I didn't know what she me
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- Page 67 and 68: NEW PROGRAMS AND EXPERIMENTATION Th
- Page 69 and 70: TRUSTEES If I seem indifferent to t
- Page 71 and 72: years when '`Christian character an
- Page 73 and 74: leaders and professors posing as mi
- Page 75 and 76: out of "The Punch Out" and other st
- Page 77 and 78: penniless writer, he travels the ga
- Page 79 and 80: No doubt about it, Mr . Williams ca
- Page 81 and 82: esearch crying for the kind of clar
- Page 83 and 84: lightly as Western intellectual imp
- Page 85 and 86: as a white man with a similar educa
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In a hot dark roomcelestial<br />
tomb<br />
all hushed<br />
and still as Death<br />
waiting life, waiting warmth<br />
Love waits-alive with oozing sweat .<br />
Crystal droplets on earth brown thighs<br />
now melt in desire's heat<br />
now flow in merging rivulets<br />
all coursing toward life's source<br />
streaming from a Black Creator<br />
smoothing his way to leap from nothingness<br />
with hot lava's potent force<br />
Black searing flesh penetrates a soft-soiled crevice<br />
inundating all in seismic surge cease rhythms .<br />
Scorched obsidion lovers<br />
tossed high by friction's force<br />
Shriek away the hush<br />
Quake the silent tomb<br />
AND LIFE FORCE COMES<br />
Heaving, Panting, Groaning<br />
it sighs Contentment<br />
Into a hot dark room<br />
terrestrial womb<br />
all hushed<br />
all still as life .<br />
l.rrecc tion<br />
-'-TENA L. LOCKETT<br />
48 March 1968 NEGRO DIGES7
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