This Month In Black History - Wings - University at Buffalo

N.O.I.R.E. Magazine
New Outlet In Revolutionary Expressions
Special To This Issue
BSU Ideology………............................pg. 20
Hurricane Katrina….............................pg. 12
Sickle Cell Auction...............................pg. 13
Inter-Cultural Diversity Center…..........pg. 15
Greek Affairs…….................................pg. 17
Black Solidarity Day……….........……..pg. 23
Managing Your Finance….................pg. 15
Celebrating The Tyrant……...............pg. 27
If I Knew Then What I Know Now......pg. 16
The New Supreme Court Justice.......pg. 17
Mayoral Elections of Buffalo…..........pg. 29
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Vol. I, Issue 1
Inside this
issue:
Letter from The
Editor
Letter from The
President of
BSU
BSU Executive
Board
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5
6
Queen City 7
POC Corner 8
This Month In
History
10
Greek Pages 18
ASSATA 24
COINTELPRO 28
Sports 30
BSU Membership
Form
Organization
Directory
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NOIRE Staff
Editor-In-Chief……………………………………………………….Sonya A. Sampson
Greek Liaisons……………………………………………………….Shaniqua Henry
Amberlee Libertone
Community Liaison…………………………………………………..Terrell Monroe
Current Events……………………………………………………….John Flanagan
Sports Writers………………………………………………………..Ekua Mends-Aido
Roderick Middleton
Robert Benjamin
Editorials………………………………………………………………Professor Luis K. Nieves
Writers………………………………………………………………...Heidi Keneflick
Latasha Lessington
Rob Martin
Lakisha Fulmore
Patrice Myrthil
NOIRE Magazine is made possible by a grant from Subboard I Inc. The views in this magazine are not necessarily the
views of Subboard I Inc., the Black Student Union, or the Student Association at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Any comments, questions, or concerns can be addressed by e-mailing the editor at BSU_1967@YAHOO.COM.
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Greetings Readers,
I would like to take the time to thank you for being a consistent supporter
of the Black Student Union at the State University of New York
at Buffalo. This year we have tried on many levels to unite the different
minority organizations not only on the University at Buffalo’s campus
but also at the different colleges and universities in and around the
Buffalo area.
This year the Black Student Union has started NOIRE magazine to
help in the process. NOIRE, the French word for black, stands for New
Outlet In Revolutionary Expressions. NOIRE is a forum for students to
express themselves about the conditions that African-Americans and
other minority groups alike face in this world today. Topics will range
from health issues to social issues. NOIRE is a way to keep the collegiate
community informed on these issues and find multiple ways for these issues to be resolved.
NOIRE is also giving different organizations the opportunity to publicize their events, meetings,
workshops, etc. The Black Student Union feels that there needs to be a centralized location where
all can send and receive pertinent information. This also allows for smaller organizations to get their
information out to people who may or may not know about their existence. It also allows other colleges
and universities in and around Buffalo to send their information about their events to the UB
community and for the UB community to become more involved in the activities at other colleges
and universities that have the same goals as they do.
NOIRE also a place where students get a better understanding of not only what is going on in the
Buffalo Community, but also in America and around the world. There will be articles posted from
various newspapers and websites from around the country and around the world.
NOIRE is also a place for those to showcase their talents. IF you want small drawings, poems, short
stories, or if you have an opinion about something that you feel others should know, we ask you to
send all of them to either the BSU mailbox in the Student Association office or e-mail them to us.
I hope this magazine becomes part of everyone’s lives as BSU has become a part of your lives.
Peace & Blessings,
Sonya A. Sampson
From The Desktop of The Editor
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Hello Black Student Union Members,
I would like to start out by saying, Thank You, for being so dedicated to
the Black Student Union thus far. You, the members are the reasons
why BSU has been so successful thus far this year, and why we will
continue to be successful throughout the year. Many of you may know
that as a whole BSU is the largest minority organization on campus.
This year we are once again attempting to reestablish the legacy that
was started in 1967, 38 years ago. The theme for this year is a continuation
upon last year’s theme, which is Back to Basics II. We are
looking to work with many of the organizations that compose the minority
student body here at UB and within Buffalo.
In addition to the theme Back to Basics: Part II. This year we have implemented
a word which is the foundation to our theme. That word is Verisimilitude. Many of you may be
wondering what this word means
Verisimilitude - ver*is*i*mil*i*tude
To create realism or truth; To make real
This year that is our goal is to bring back the realism and the history that is BSU. So far this year we have had
numerous events from the Welcome Back BBQ, the Sickle Cell Auction and Brunch, Black Solidarity Day, and
Harlem Night, in addition to several general meetings, including the meeting in conjunction with Delta Sigma
Theta Sorority, Inc. entitled “What Is The Noble Nine:, and “It’s Just a Cough…I don’t need a Doctor” where
our own Dr. Young ‘in gave medicinal knowledge, helping facilitate this meeting. These are just a few of what
BSU has in store for you this year.
This year my goal is to bring solidarity and unite the minority community here at the University at Buffalo, as
well, as within the University Communities here within Buffalo. I am working to bring back the original principals
that BSU is founded upon which are to educate, bring understanding and knowledge between cultures,
increase self knowledge, preserve Black culture within our communities among others. The purpose of BSU
is to represent its members, and that is my purpose for BSU this year, to be a crutch for its members when
they are in need, to be a support system and a safe haven for those who need guidance. My goals are to provide
and increase in awareness within the membership of what it means to a minority in America, in 2005-
2006.
Throughout this year, you will always be able to reach out and touch me. Just like many of you have done
thus far. Once again I just want to thank all of you who have supported BSU. I am hoping that you will continuously
support us, as you done thus far. I am hoping and expecting to see all of your faces at our upcoming
events! Once again From the Desk of the President, Thank you for all of your support!
Peace and Love,
Tricia Grannum
From The Desktop of The President
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The Black Student Union Executive Board
2005 – 2006 Academic Year
President
Tricia Grannum
TRICIA_GRANNUM@YAHOO.COM
Vice-President
Durval Morgan
DTMORGAN@BUFFALO.EDU
Treasurer
Erica Myrtil
EJMYTRIL@BUFFALO.EDU
Secretary
Sherry Adjapong
ADJAPONG@BUFFALO.EDU
Activities Coordinators
Brandy Solomon
BSOLOMON14611@YAHOO.COM
Nychele Sweeting
NJS9@BUFFALO.EDU
Publicity Coordinators
Bernard Blake
BABLAKE2@BUFFALO.EDU
Historian
Sonya Sampson
BSU_1967@YAHOO.COM
BMU Co-Chairs
Jeremy Lyman
JJLYMAN@BUFFALO.EDU
BWU Co-Chairs
Dorlisa Henry
VLSQZHEN@AOL.COM
U.R.B.A.N.A.C.T.
Keisha Etienne
(Community Service)
KETIENNE@BUFFALO.EDU
Advisors
Christopher Brown -Graduate
F. Titilayo Fagbenle- Graduate
Simone Hicks - Upperclassman
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The Queen City:
Buffalo, NY
TOY DRIVE:
"Helping Hands Can
Heal," a Christmas
toy drive for Hurricane
Katrina victims,
will be held
from 10 a.m. to 11
p.m. Saturday
(11/26) in the HSBC
Arena. Unwrapped
gifts labeled with
appropriate gender
and age can be
dropped off. Gifts
and donations will
also be accepted
through Dec. 6 at
Ekklesia: a Ministry
of Worship, 1006
Hyde Park Blvd.,
Niagara Falls. For
EM TEA COFFEE
CUP
716.884.1444
80 Oakgrove Ave
14208
Poetry Night every
Tues @ 7:00pm
FREE ICE SKAT-
ING at Rotary Rink
from Nov. 25 until
March 19th In
Downtown Buffalo
Buffalo Community Service
details, call 284-
3513.
WRAPPING GIFTS:
The Opportunity
Unlimited of Niagara
Foundation is seeking
volunteers for its
Holiday Gift Wrapping
Booth. The
event is November
25, 2005 until December
24, 2005 at
The Outlets at Niagara
Falls USA. The
booth is open during
all mall hours, including
holiday
hours. It is a great
opportunity for students
to complete
Buffalo Community Events
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PHARMACY STU-
DENTS and a pharmacist
will be on
hand from 4 to 8
p.m. Dec. 2 in Good
Shepherd Baptist
Church, 187 Southside
Parkway, to review
all medications
and answer questions.
The public can
bring their medications,
vitamins, herbals
and over-thecounters
that are
community service
hours. The proceeds
benefit people with
development disabilities.
For details
contact Valerie Camann
716.297.6400
ext. 256 or e-mail at
vcamann@buffnet.net
WANT TO GIVE
your time to a worthwhile
effort? Go to
www.volunteermatc
h.org and check out
ways to volunteer in
your community.
taken for headaches,
arthritis, etc.
Flu shots will also be
given. Church members
will serve a chili
and cornbread dinner
for $3. For details,
or to register
for the flu shot, call
834-4112.

Hello Fellow Students,
My name is Keri-anne Marshall and I am your
2005-2006 People of Color (POC) Council Coordinator.
I am currently a senior Economics and African-American
Studies major who hails from
Queens, New York by way of Kingston, Jamaica.
The POC council serves as the cultural backbone
of the University, we are the smallest, but I believe
we are the most powerful council of the six councils
under the Student Association umbrella. We
create and maintain programs geared to fostering
an understanding of the people represented by
the council and we also provide a point of resource
to the members of various clubs under the
council. My duties as POC Coordinator include
being the Chief Executive of the POC Council,
creating and supporting programming designed to
divulge our cultural ways and to meet the needs of
the clubs’ mission. This position also allows me
the privilege of representing People of Color in the
Student Association Senate amongst other things.
I would like to see the consistency of excellence
AASU:
19th: Amazing Race 12pm - 2pm
People of Color Corner
POC CALENDAR: November 2005
NAACP:
20th: National Day of Preparation (Buffalo Public School Students) 8am - 4pm
20th: Step Show $5 w/ college ID @ 5:00 pm
NAPA:
6th: Native Band, Blueshounds Band from Cattaraugus Reservation (Buffalo State College)
7th: High School Recruitment Dinner for Native American Students (Buffalo State College)
16th: Native American Bazaar 12pm - 2pm
PODER:
2nd: Annual Homesick Dinner @ 5:00 pm
18th - 19th ASPIRA High School Orientation w/ Students from NYC
18th: 3:00 pm & 19th: 12:00 pm
December 3, 2005: Trip to Toronto
serve to the Buffalo Community that the Black Student
Union has exemplified over the years and would also
like for the member ship to be unified in getting things
done because there is a great need for our services
here at the University and in our surrounding communities/
I would like for BSU to work with and support the
other clubs in the council to exemplify the theme of this
years POC Council, “In Unity is Strength” and to encourage
others to get involved as well.
Finally, I would like to thank BSU for the years of training
provided to me by the various positions that I have
held on their executive board (Black Women United
Chair, Treasurer, and U.R.B.A.N.A.C.T. Chair). Without
the experience that I have received from you, I would
not be where I am today and for this I am eternally
grateful. Congratulations on your new magazine!
Sincerely Yours,
Keri-anne Marshall
People of Color Council Coordinator
km44@buffalo.edu
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People of Color Corner
Asian-American Student Union
AASU has been serving the Asian Americans and the world community of the State University
of New York at Buffalo since 1988. Asian American Student Union (AASU) is an organization
formed to enhance interactions between Asian American students, faculty, and staff of
the State University through cultural, educational, and social activities. Our goal for the future
is to Further the welfare of Asian Americans, preserve and perpetuate Asian American culture,
dignity and pride. The club's motto is "Bringing in Asian culture into an American way of
life"
National Association for the Advancement
of Color People
NAACP is a national organization which has been around from the year 1909, and has accomplished
great things since then. We the youth and college chapter here at the University
at Buffalo have been on campus since 1996 and we believe strongly that future leaders must
be developed today. So our goals for this year are to get as many students involved in, on
and off-campus, leadership, promote and push for diversity in the student population and
amongst the professional staff at this University. And to advance the economic, educational,
social, and political status of Africans in Diaspora and other people of color
Native American Peoples Alliance
To assist the University in the recruitment, enrollment, retention, and graduation of Native
American students to the University. To serve as a support group for all Native students at
the University. To promote NAPA as a worthwhile organization to potential members. To actively
work with and support the Native American Studies department and its faculty and staff.
To work with other faculty, staff, clubs, and organizations on areas of mutual concern and
benefit. To work with community-based organizations for the benefit of Native American Peoples.
To educate uninformed members of the University and larger community about the true
history, perspectives, current events, and other areas of the Native American experience and
its relevance to other peoples. To generate as much programming to accomplish these aims
and goals as much as possible.
PODER: Latinos Unidos
PODER is a Latino based group that was founded at SUNY Buffalo in 1968 in order to represent
and motivate the underrepresented Latino population here at the university. PODER
strives to uplift, strengthen and unify all ethnic groups by promoting awareness of ones culture.
Throughout the years PODER has been able to increase the Latino population at the
University and successfully graduate over 95% of its members. PODER also works closely
with other organizations both on and off campus so that we are able to learn and appreciate
more about our culture as well as others. PODER has also been known to be a very strong
and vocal organization when it comes to political agendas that affect Latinos and other ethnic
group. For more information on PODER please email us at poder_eboard@yahoo.com or
come by our office at 372 student union.
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This Month In Black History: NOVEMBER
1 - W.E.B. DuBois, activist, begins publication of the NAACP
monthly magazine, Crisis, 1910
John H. Johnson publishes first issue of Ebony magazine,
1945
2 - Maggie L. Walker, business and civic leader, opens the St.
Luke Penny Savings Bank in Richmond, Virginia, 1903
President Ronald Reagan signs law designating the third
Monday in January as Martin Luther King Jr. Day, 1983
3 - J.H. Hunter patents the portable weighing scales, 1896
Harold Ford elected congressman from Tennessee, 1974
Thurman L. Milnet elected mayor of Hartford, Connecticut,
1981
Carol Moseley Braun elected US Senate, 1992
4 - T. Elkins patents the refrigerating apparatus, 1879
Hulan Jack elected first Black Borough President of Manhattan,
NYC, 1953
Shirley Verrett, world renowned opera singer, makes her
debut in New York City, 1958
5 - Theo Wright becomes the first Black recipient of a Theology
Degree in the US, 1836
Shirley Chisholm becomes first Black woman elected to
Congress, representing Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn,
NYC, 1968
George Brown elected Lt. Governor of Colorado, becoming
one of the first two Black Lt. Governors in the US, 1974
Mervyn M. Dymally elected Lt Governor of California, becoming
one of the first two Black Lt Governors in the USA,
1974
6 - Coleman Young elected mayor of Detroit, becoming one of
the first two Black mayors of city with over a million citizens,
1973
Thomas Bradley elected mayor of Los Angeles at a time
when Blacks represented only 15% of the LA electorate,
becoming one of the first two Black mayors of city with over
a million citizens, 1973
7 - Elijah Lovejoy, newspaperman, killed defending his newspaper
from a pro-slavery mob, 1837
David Dinkins elected first Black mayor of New York City,
1989
L. Douglas Wilder elected governor of Virginia, becoming
the first Black Governor in the US since Reconstruction,
1989
8 - Marshall Walter "Major" Taylor, the world's fastest bicycle
racer for 12 years, born in Indianapolis, 1878
Otis Smith becomes auditor general and the first Black
politician to win a statewide election since reconstruction,
1960
Edward W. Brooke elected first Black US senator (R-Mass)
in eighty five years, 1966
9 - Benjamin Banneker, inventor, mathematician and one of
the planners of what is now Washington DC, born, 1731
Medical School at Howard University opens with eight
students, 1868
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10 - Granville T. Woods patents the electric railway, 1891
Charlie Sifford wins the Long Beach Open, becoming
the first Black person to win a major professional
golf tournament, 1957
Andrew Hatcher is named associate press secretary
to President John F Kennedy, becoming the first
Black press secretary, 1960
11 - Nat Turner, leader of a Virginia slave revolt, hanged,
1831
D. McCree patents the portable fire escape, 1890
Civil Rights Memorial is dedicated in Montgomery,
AL, 1989
12 - Madame Lillian Evanti, opera singer, founds the
National Negro Opera Company, 1941
13 - Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, pioneering surgeon, becomes
a member of the American College of Surgeons,
1913
Janet Collins, ballerina, becomes the first Black
dancer to appear with the Metropolitan Opera Company,
1951
14 - Booker T. Washington, educator and founder of Tuskegee
Institute, dies, 1915
15 - Granville T. Woods patents this Synchronous Multiplier
Railway Telgrap, 1887
16 - W.C. Handy, father of the Blues, born in Florence,
AL, 1873
17 - Omega Psi Phi, fraternity, founded on the campus of
Howard University, 1911
19 - Roy Campanella named most valuable player of the
National Baseball League for the second time, 1953
20 - Howard University founded, 1865
Garrett T. Morgan patents the traffic signal, 1923
21 - Shaw University founded, 1865
22 - Elijah Muhammad founds the Nation of Islam in Detroit,
1930
23 - Andrew J. Beard patents the jerry coupler, still used
today to connect railroad cars, 1897
J.L. Love patents the pencil sharpener, 1897
1000 persons from twenty five states gather in Philadelphia
and form the National Black Independent
Party, 1980
25 - Segregation in buses and terminals banned by Interstate
Commerce Commission, 1955
26- National Negro Medical Association founded, 1895
Charles Gordone receives the Pulitzer Prize for his
play No Place to be Somebody, 1970
27 - Jimi Hendrix, rock musician, born, 1942
28 - Richard Wright, author of Native Son and Black Boy,
dies, 1942
30 - Shirley Chisholm, congresswoman, born, 1924

This Month In Black History: DECEMBER
1 - Arthur Spingarn, founder of the NAACP, born, 1878
Minnie Evans, painter, born, 1892
Rosa Parks refuses to yield her seat to a White man,
initiating the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which lasted over
a year, 1955
2 - Charles Wesley, historian, born, 1891
Charles C. Diggs, congressman, born, 1922
3 - Frederick Douglass, along with Martin R Delaney, start
The North Start, an anti-slavery paper, 1847
4 - Alpha Phi Alpha, first Black Greek Letter Fraternity,
founded, 1906
Amsterdam News founded in New York, 1909
Fred Hampton, chairman of the Illinois chapter of the
Black Panther Party, killed by Chicago police while he
was sleeping, 1969
Mark Clark, Black Panther, killed by Chicago police,
1969
5 - Phyllis Wheatley, one of the first Black female poets in
America, dies, 1784
Mary McLeod Bethune, educator, founds National Council
of Negro Women, 1935
6 - Theodore Lawless, medicine pioneer, born, 1892
500 store owners in Tucson, Arizona sign pledges of
nondiscrimination, 1960
8 - Henry Hugh Proctor, writer, born, 1868
Sammy Davis Jr., entertainer, born, 1925
Kurt Schmoke becomes the first Black mayor of Balti
more, MD, 1987
9 - P.B.S. Pinchback serves as governor of Louisiana, becoming
the first Black state governor, 1872
Roy deCarava, first Black American photographer to be
awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, born, 1919
Red Foxx, entertainer, born, 1925
10 - Ralph J Bunche becomes the first Black person awarded
a Nobel Peace Prize, 1950
11 - Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton, blues singer, born,
1926
12 - George F. Grant, dentist, receives a patent for the
wooden golf tee, 1899
James Weldon Johnson and James Rosamond Johnson
compose Lift Every Voice And Sing, 1900
Willie Brown becomes the first Black mayor of San Francisco,
CA, 1995
13 - First Black women complete officer training for the
WAVEs, 1944
14 - John Langston, Congressman, born, 1829
15 - William Hinton, first Black professor at Harvard Medical
School and developer of "Hinton Test" for diagnosing
syphilis, born, 1911
16 - Andrew Young named Ambassador and Chief US Delegate
to the United Nations, 1976
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17 - Henry Adams, teacher and minister, born, 1802
Noble Sissle, lyricist and bandleader, dies, 1975
18 - The 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery, ratified,
1865
19 - Carter G. Woodson, the father of Black history, born,
1875
Cicely Tyson, acclaimed actor, born, 1933
20 - Mother Matelda Beasley, nun, born, 1834
South Carolina secedes from the Union, beginning the
rumbles that would become the Civil War, 1860
Max Robinson, first Black news anchor for a major
television network, dies, 1988
21 - Josh Gibson, the home run king of the Negro Baseball
League, born, 1911
22 - Arthur Wergs Mitchell, politician, born, 1883
Dr Chancellor Williams, historian and author of Destruction
of Black Civilization, born, 1898
23 - Madame C J Walker, probably the first Black million
aire, born, 1867
Alice H. Parker patents the gas heating furnace, 1919
24 - Irwin C Mollison, first Black judge of the Customs
Court, born, 1898
Cab Calloway, bandleader and first jazz singer to sell a
million records, born, 1907
25 - Henry McKee Minton, physician, born, 1870
Rev Jesse Jackson organizes Operation PUSH (People
United to Save Humanity), 1971
26 - Kwanzaa, the first day: Umoja or unity
Jack Johnson becomes world heavyweight champion,
defeating Tommy Burns, 1908
27 - Kwanzaa, the second day: Kujichagulia or selfdetermination
Biddle University (now Johnson C. Smith) defeats Livingstone
College, in first intercollegiate football game
between historically Black colleges, 1892
Dr. Charles Richard Drew, pioneer of blood plasma
research, establishes a pioneer blood bank in New York
City, 1941
28 - Kwanzaa, the third day: Ujima or collective work and
responsibility
Earl "Fatha" Hines, famed jazz musician and father of
modern jazz piano, born, 1905
Karen Farmer becomes the first known Black member
of the Daughters of the American Revolution, 1977
29 - Kwanzaa, the fourth day: Ujamaa or cooperative eco
nomics
30 - Kwanzaa, the fifth day: Nia or purpose
Dr Miles V Lynk, physician, publishes the first Black
medical journal, 1892
31 - Kwanzaa, the sixth day: Ukuumba or creativity

By John Flanagan (http://blackintrospection.blogspot.com/)
Hurricane Katrina
If ones perception
is ones
reality and that
perception is
different from
how others perceive
reality,
then whose
reality is correct?
How does
one convince another that their perceived reality is wrong
and that they are racist, even though they believe they are
not? Emotions, primarily fear, play a large role in shaping
peoples perception as many people have fear and aversion
to epiphany when the epiphany cast them in a negative light
and goes against their paradigm of beliefs they felt secure
with. Therefore, people can and do often see what they want
to see in order to protect their image, thereby creating the
separation from reality as perceived by most others. There
are plenty examples, mostly born from some sort of substance
addiction and denial of addiction or problem, or disorder
like anorexia. So we know that denial or distorted reality
is a common human disorder.
What is the psychological or physical reward of racism (R) ?
For years, in fact centuries, the reward to white people (WP)
has been economical and psychological. The effect of years
of R is that it created a caste like economic system based
upon R. Slavery and its labor was forced upon black people
(BP), which eliminated the burden of such oppression from
WP, as was the case in Europe. Post slavery, years of Jim
Crow apartheid allocated good opportunities and accommodations
to WP allowing them to rise and prosper while BP
were held down. The socioeconomic inequality of today is
the legacy of that past. Psychologically, WP receives reward
to their egos from the perception of being members of a superior
R. It kind of like the reward and recognition a player
gets from being on a championship team; even if the player
rides the bench he or she gets the transference benefit from
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being part of the group.
Part of the problem is that often WP are working from a
self serving and self created definition of R and hence
deny that they are R because their self perception does
not meet their personal working definition. Most R erroneously
believes that to be R one must harbor negative
emotions against a particular group or groups. That was
the template set by overt R of the past who contemporary
whites use to judge themselves by. They juxtapose
their motivations and actions with the motivations and
actions of those of the past and conclude that they are
different and that difference leads them to conclude that
they are not R, because they may or do not harbor hate.
What they fail to recognize is that R has always had an
emotional and rational component and in the past the
emotional component simply stood out more, masking
the rational component.
Many WP rationalize that they are not being R, but
rather are simply being truthful. In other words, they see
a rational, non-emotional reason to see a certain group
in a negative light, that’s usually backed up by some
statistic. Therefore, they deny R as a motivation and
instead see themselves the victims of others who are
out on a witch hunt to unjustly slander their image so
they become defensive. What they don’t realize is that
their use and conclusions born from the statistics promotes
the concept of black inferiority (BI) and or white
superiority (WS). The idea or belief in BI or WS is thus a
rational conclusion, as they see it, totally void of any
emotions, negative or positive. Indeed, most non emotion
based R is simply WS, but do not realize it because
they have the historical, hate filled, ignorant prototype as
the template (i.e. skin heads) for their working definition
of a WS. Although they share the same rationalizations
of BI and or WS, they see a distinction and hence difference
born from not sharing the same emotions.
R’s ubiquitously employ a snap shot form of reasoning
that allows their prejudgments or social conditioning to

fill in the blanks that the snapshot does not provide.
They take moments of time, as if they existed void the
influence of the action reaction continuum of time, and
use those moments in time to conclude Black inferiority
(BI) and or white supremacy (WS). For example, they
will take the unemployment rate and use it to rationalize
their preexisting conditioning or belief that B’s are lazy.
They will take the rate of births out of wedlock and use
it to enforce their preexisting conditioning that B’s are
irresponsible. They will take the crime and incarcerations
rates and use it to rationalize that blacks indeed
are a violent people. They will take low test score of B
and use it to rationalize a lack of capacity for intelligence.
The implied juxtaposition is always with W and if
the statistics were the same as W or better, they would
not even bring them up because such information does
not support the belief of BI and or WS.
The big fallacy is the belief by some that in order to be
an R one has to be a bad person or a person with malicious
intent. I know plenty of W people who seem like
great people and for the most part they are. They have
come to my home for dinner. They have kids who play
with my kids. They offer help if they think I am in the
need and are generally likable positive people. However,
then race somehow becomes a topic and I find
that these same people have WS and or BI rationalizations.
Those rationalizations are always uncovered
when WP seek to explain the B condition. If I had a
dollar for every time a WP lamented that if “they” just
worked hard and became responsible, then discrepancies
would go away, I would be a millionaire, to use a
tired cliché. Of course, what is implied in such statements
is that blacks are not working hard and that
blacks are irresponsible, at least relative to WP. They
have never bared direct witness to the lives of the
masses of people they are passing judgment upon, yet,
they have concluded that they are not working as hard
as WP and are less responsible to. That’s R.
Of course, there is a reason and explanation for everything
and statistics don’t lie assuming they are valid.
However, statistics
KATRINA cont. on pg 14
Sickle Cell Auction
Opinion By Heidi Kenefick
First, let me say that this was the
first Sickle Cell auction that I have
attended, so I have no previous bias
as which to compare this year’s auction.
Overall I would say that the
auction was successful and enjoyable.
There were, however, its highlights
and downfalls.
The biggest downfall I felt was the
time. I arrived at about quarter to
five, and stayed the entire time and even into some of the
clean up time. I was easily there over five hours. I think if the
auction had started promptly at five, and lasted at the most
three hours it would have been better because by the end of
the show many people had left. I think that in future shows
there should be an intermission especially since the show
may last upwards of four hours.
The hosts, I feel, did a good job in keeping people interested,
especially Nelly. As the hosts, it is their job to keep the show
moving along at a decent pace which, despite the length of
the show they managed to do as best as possible. Their only
weakness was keeping track of the bids, which is understandable
because of all the merging that was going on. But
since the ushers did such an excellent job of collecting from
everyone that had bid, it didn’t really matter that Jessica and
Nelly had trouble keeping track. The ushers were, in my
opinion, the backbone of the show.
Merging, I noticed, was definitely the most successful way to
raise money. I observed that no one was really doing it until
Nelly started it on one of the girls. I’m glad that he did that
because that engaged the audience to do so also. Toward
the end of the show, merging was all that was happening,
probably because it is easier to add five dollars then to outbid
someone. Yet, it became almost embarrassing for everyone
when some of the best acts had trouble raising money. Many
people said LUL would have gotten all their money had they
gone first, however, towards the end many people just didn’t
have any money left to put up. The Frats were by far the best
acts, so although saving them for the end is a good strategy,
not many people stayed until the end. Maybe the frats could
be spaced out, like some in the beginning, some in the middle
and some at the end of the show, because they will help
keep the show interesting.
Overall the show was successful and entertaining. The hosts
complimented each other- AUCTION cont. on pg 15
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KATRINA CON’T.
don’t explain the
“why”. Rather,
they simply state
what is and
those who use
statistics generally
do so to
support their
rationalizations
of why. Some
may have the
belief that B’s
are lazy and
then bring out
statistics showing that B’s unemployment rate is 2 1/2 the
rate of WP and see and present that as proof that B’s
don’t want to work. Most WP tends to believe that if you
were not a slave then you have no one to blame for your
condition but yourself. Of course, there are no former
slaves living today and hence the B condition, in their
mind, is internally created from B and not the product or
reaction to a 300 year history of R discrimination. They
cannot deny that such a history occurred, because it is
recorded. However, they can deny its effect upon the present.
They see the history of R against B as true, but incidental
and not causation of the contemporary B condition.
Ignoring divine metaphysical manipulation, the human
condition is the resultant of internal and or external causation.
The options are binary, but not mutually exclusive.
The differential socioeconomic condition of B in this nation,
relative to W, is the product of internal, external or a
combination there of, causation. To dismiss the external
is to promote the internal as the cause. Notwithstanding
300 years of negative treatment, oppression and repression
and the present being the creation of the past, WP
dismiss the external or R influence upon the B condition.
This leaves only the internal as the causation of the socioeconomic
gaps and discrepancies. But what exactly
does the internal allude to? It can only allude to genetics
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and or culture, meaning that the B condition is the resultant
of inferior genetics and or inferior culture. In other words,
genetic and or cultural inferiority, to WP, is the cause of
social and economic differential, in their beliefs.
Most WP recognize that when they start talking genetic
links to performance differences between R that such
thoughts are symptomatic of R. In our contemporary society
a taboo has been placed upon being R and the label
denigrates the righteousness of those who harbor the beliefs.
Consequently, culture has replaced genetics like being
“anti-liberal” has replaced being “anti-B” for many closet
and or in denial R. Thus, instead of stating that B’s are genetically
inferior, when pressed to the root of their argument,
they will link the root to an inferior culture. However,
this begs the question of what is the root of culture. If culture
is born from people do superior people create inferior
culture? Do inferior people create superior culture? Is W
culture superior because its people are superior or superior,
while equal or inferior to others? The root of culture is
people and to suggest a culture is inferior is to suggest its
root people are inferior as well.
When all else fails and it becomes pretty clear that a WP is
R, then the final character saving strategy is the attempt to
normalize the behavior as human. This becomes apparent
when WP starts calling BP racist too. The goal here is to
characterize R as a normal human tendency, which it is to
a degree, but not to the degree in which WP have manifested
it against BP. They way they tell it, BP R negate WP
R and everything balances out economically and morally,
which is a falsehood. Certainly BP resentment, mistrust and
reservations about WP, which is the reaction to 300 years
of mistreatment from WP, can be termed R. However, there
is certainly a huge moral difference from resenting being
mistreated and seen as inferior than R born from no apparent
reason other than to preserve the state of W Privilege
and superiority. Memory is an evolved survival mechanism
and history is a form of memory. Hence, BP would be putting
their survival at risk by not being suspect of WP based
upon memory and history. When a BP simply talks about
this nations R history and our mistreatment, we meet WP
working definition of B R,
KATRINA cont. on pg 16

Inter-cultural Diversity Center
The Intercultural and Diversity Center (IDC) is located in 240
Student Union on UB’s North campus, which was previously
the commuter’s lounge. This new center provides cultural
enrichment and leadership experiences that raise the awareness
of issues of culture and diversity while maintaining a
university climate that celebrates differences thus improving
the quality of Intercultural Life for students at the University at
Buffalo.
Our goal is to facilitate the academic , professional and personal
development of students, staff, and faculty who are
members of the UB community by providing programs and
services that foster discussions on issues related to the creation
of multi-ethnic, culturally conscious university community
and encourage the community to attend educational and
celebratory programs that focus on cultural awareness and
enrichment.
As a part of culturally enriching our community, IDC would
like to collaborate with the UB community and student organizations
in initiating the Council this year. The purpose of the
Council is to provide students an opportunity to meet with
administrators within Student Affairs, so that students may
have a voice and an impact on the issues, concerns, and
ideas that affect our collegiate community.
If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to contact
us. Jocelyn Tejeda (jocelyntejeda@yahoo.com)
By Lakisha Fulmore
Managing Your Finances
College is a time of new experiences, new faces, a new environment, and for most college students,
a new responsibility of handling your own money. At this time especially it is important to
carefully manage your finances preventing it from becoming a huge debt burden later on in the
future. Often, college students make the mistake of splurging on minute expenses. Minute expenses
include parties, cups of coffee before each class and cigarettes which for the most part
is not difficult to accumulate well over $1000.00 per academic year. In addition to those expenses,
most college students have the responsibility of paying rent, gas, school books (which
are not cheap), and food expenses. Managing your money is a skill that requires discipline, patience
and sacrifice. Here are some few tips on managing your finances:
Plan ahead- Figure out your total net income and necessary expenses each week.
This allows you to take control from the very beginning and not letting it take control of you.
Make note of payment due dates
Learn how to economize!!
AUCTION cont.
Nelly being funny and Jessica kept the show moving
along, which added to the character of the show. All of
the organizing and planning and enthusiasm that went
into the show paid off big in the end with over 2000 dollars
being raised for Sickle Cell and Katrina victims.
Instead of buying the book from the campus bookstore, weigh your options and try buying them from a previous student.
This can possibly save you hundreds. Also, take advantage of free campus activities. It’s not so bad especially when
you’re saving money.
Make a list at the end of the day of exactly how much you took out with you and exactly how much you spent.
By doing this, you have the ability to actually see where your money is going. It’ll also illustrate how much you can possibly
save.
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KATRINA CON’T.
which is an absurd working definition, nearly as absurd as their working definition of what
constitutes a W R.
It would not really matter so much what WP think if they did not have so much power. WP’s are the ethnic majority and
represent the majority in both viable political options in the two party construct. They are disproportionately the business
elites as well. Hence, they control the politics and economics of an interdependent political economic construct which is
America. The fate of BP in such a construct is highly dependant upon the beliefs and behavior of WP, as it has always
been, much more so than their fate is dependant upon our beliefs and behavior. In this interdependent construct in which
WP have the disproportionate power politically and economically, we are extremely vulnerable to W biases regardless of
how subtle and indirect. It’s the tyranny of majority rule over its historically despised B population. Hurricane Katrina was
an unfortunate event, but it did allow the world to see the America that BP perceives as reality instead of the fantasy
world of cognitive dissonance and denial that W America project to the world about itself. As long as BP are perceived to
have it better than Africans in Africa, they see our mistreatment in America as a net gain and that we have nothing to
complain about, lest we would rather be living today in Africa.
Like the wind, racism cannot be bared witness to directly but rather indirectly through its effect upon things that we can
see. Hence, the evidence of the wind is its effect as the evidence of racism is its effect.
Yours truly,
Noah The African
Dear BSU Undergraduates,
If I knew then what I know now, I would not change too much of anything. I have no regrets because I lived and learned.
I came to school aware and with a sense of greater purpose. I knew that although I was living my own life, I was not just
living for me. I also knew, that everything that glittered wasn’t gold. Unfortunately, today’s undergraduates seem less
politically astute or less concerned with the workings of the world and more concerned with self. If I could pass on some
wisdom to today’s undergraduates, I would strongly advise that you question everything. Do not take life, school, books,
government, or anything for that matter at face value. Question everything. You have been blessed with the opportunity
to attend a university. Do you know what the difference is between a college and a university? A college is a selfgoverning
constituent body of a university offering living quarters and instruction but not granting degree, while a university
is an institution of higher learning providing facilities for teaching and research and authorized to grant academic degrees.
The important distinction is that a university is for the purpose of research, and I strongly encourage you take
advantage of the close to 10 libraries that you have at this university. As a people, it is always important that we understand
that history is just that his story and unless we take upon ourselves to learn our story we can only repeat history
thus stifling our progress. By no means am I saying not to enjoy your collegiate years, because these are some of the
best years of your life. Though, I am saying to always be aware of your surroundings, know that our favorite pair of
sneakers-Jordan’s cost $80 plus, but they only put a few bucks in the pockets of the women and children in sweatshops.
Never forget that the ice that motivates you is also the ice that funds civil wars in Africa. It is important to develop a
global consciousness, because we do not dwell on this earth alone and for every action there is a reaction, whether on
this side of the globe or not. A world renown geographer by the name of Nevin Fenneman once said, “ The purpose of
primary education is the development of your weak characteristics; the purpose of university education, the development
of your strong". I hope you all utilize this time to develop into formidable pillars of your respective communities.
Best Regards,
Latasha Lessington
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The New Supreme Court Justice Nominee
From CNN.com 11/8 by Associated Press
Supreme Court nominee Samuel
Alito.
President Bush last week selected
Alito, a former Reagan
administration lawyer who is
currently a judge on the Philadelphia-based
3rd U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals, after White
House counsel Harriet Miers
withdrew her nomination amid
withering criticism from conservatives.
The Senate Judiciary Committee has already set his confirmation
hearing for January 9, although Alito has yet to be
officially nominated by the White House. He is being nominated
to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who
has been a key vote on contentious issues like abortion and
affirmative action.
By Patrice Myrthil
With over 650 Greeks and 47 Greek-letter organizations
campus-wide, it becomes apparent that a means
of communication is necessary between the University
and Greek-letter organizations is vital. As University
Liaison in the office of Greek affairs, Mrs. Pam
Stevens-Jackson’s roles in this capacity are to advise,
enforce, and administer.
The duties of the office of Greek affairs include providing
information on prevention of hazing as well as a
means of reporting incidents of hazing. In addition to
anti-hazing policies, Greek-letter organizations have
several rules to abide by in order to remain on campus.
Rush and recruitment activities are required to
be dry. Rushees must have at least a 2.0 GPA and be
at least a second semester students with a minimum
of 12 credits. Greeks are also required to maintain a
minimum GPA in order to remain an active member.
Greek Affairs
An Interview w/ Ms. Pamela Stevens-Jackson
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He already has met opposition from abortion rights
groups like Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-
Choice America...
Lieberman called his meeting with Alito "encouraging,"
but also said the federal judge had not assured him that
he would not overturn Roe.
"He did articulate that he thinks one should look at the
Constitution as the document is set and try to interpret
from that document, not trying to bring in things or seeing
it as a living document," said Brownback, who will
be one of the senators quizzing Alito at his Judiciary
Committee confirmation hearing.
Greek life enhances the average students life in
many ways. Students develop leadership qualities
through parliamentary procedures of the selfgoverning
unit as well as through duties such as
budgeting and financial management. Community
events and activities also provide an opportunity to
make new friends and develop your resume while
helping your community. Being in a Greek organization
also provides the opportunity for academic
mentoring from other members. In general, Greeks
tend to have higher GPA’s than students not involved
in Greek-letter organization, although recently
the average GPA of Greeks have been .3 under
the general undergraduate student average.
http://www.greeklife.buffalo.edu/

Motto: “First of All, Servants of All, We
Shall Transcend All”
Colors: old gold and Black
Flower: yellow rose
Mascot:
Motto: “Achievement in every field of
human endeavor”
Colors: Crimson & Cream
Flower: Red Carnation
Mascot: (No Official Mascot)
Motto: “Friendship is essential to the
soul.”
Colors: Royal Purple and Old Gold
Flower: African Violet
Mascot: Bulldog
Motto: “Culture for Service and Service
for Humanity”
Colors: Royal Blue & Pure White
Flower: White Rose
Mascot: Dove, Camel, &Black Panther
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Motto: “Service to All Mankind”
Colors: Salmon Pink & Apple Green
Flower: Pink Tea Rose
Mascot: Ivy, Frog, and Rabbit
Motto: “Intelligence is the torch of Wisdom.”
Colors: Crimson and Cream
Flower: African Violet
Mascot: Elephant - Trunk Up
Motto: “A Community Conscience, Action-
Oriented Organization.”
Colors: Royal Blue & Pure White
Flower: White Rose
Mascot: White Dove & White Cat
Motto: “Greater Service, Greater Progress.”
Colors: Royal Blue & Gold
Flower: Yellow Tea Rose
Mascot: French Poodle
Motto: “Building a Tradition, Not Resting
On One”
Colors: Charcoal Brown & Gilded Gold
Flower: Yellow Rose
Mascot: Centaur

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December 9 - 11, 2005
Blue & White Weekend
November 3, 2005
Ques Poetry Nite
Steel Drums
November 12, 2005
Get Nasty With The
Ques (Founders Day
Party)
Maritime Center
December 1, 2005
The Juke
Steel Drums
November 19, 2005
w/ Lambda Upsilon
Lambda
GOLD RUSH
Pleasure Dome
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Red & White Week

The Ideology of the Black Student Union
From Unity: Phase One Vol. 1, No. 6 March 12, 1971
There has been a lot of discussion
among members of the Black Student
Union as to precisely what is the ideology
of our young organization. The
leadership has said the ideology is Pan-
Africanism, but has never defined Pan-
Africanism and laid the necessary ideological
foundation for concrete and
positive action in that direction. We understand
very clearly that there are
prerequisites which have to be met in
order for our struggle to proceed on
the correct path to liberation for
ourselves and other oppressed people.
A firm ideological foundation provides
us with the power to stand firm
against attacks from the oppressor,
and puts us in a position to deal with
ideological revisionists and dogmatists.
It serves as our most important
weapon in our struggle to eliminate
the evils of liberalism and organizational
hang-ups within our ranks of
people. Our ideological foundation
provides the masses with a guide to
judge us as we move among them with
implementation of our programs.
When we say our ideology is Pan-
Africanism, we mean that the ideology
of B.S.U. is the understanding of historical
experiences of African people
the world over and the wisdom gained
by African people in their struggle
against colonialism, racism, and imperialism,
defined through the ideological
framework of Pan-Africanism as defined
by the B.S.U. Central Committee.
However, we must place heavy emphasis
on the last part of that definition,
“as defined by the B.S.U. Central Committee.”
The world of Pan-Americanism
has become a large jungle of opinion
in which conflicting interpretations
from revisionism to dogmatism have
been allowed to give off reactionary
and blind philosophies, as revolutionism
has been defined from the need of
all African people to return to the
motherland and liberate it. To the idea
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of setting up an independent African
nation within the americas. Such an
ideological inconsistency presents
serious problems to a young organization,
such as ours, in its attempts to
move in our struggle for liberation
and unification of Black people.
When we say we are Pan-Africanists,
we mean we understand the classical
principles of Pan-Africanism and that
we have adopted these principles to
our own situation. Although we do
not move with closed minds to new
ideas and new information, we realize,
to be free from ideological flunkeyism,
we must use our own brains in
solving problems of an ideological nature.
We understand, very clearly, the
revolutionary principle of selfreliance,
and how we must relate to it
if we are to survive. It must be us who
lay the necessary ideological foundation
that is intuned to an ever changing
political situation.
Ideology is a body of doctrine, myth,
symbols, etc., of a social movement,
institution, class, or large group.
Such a body of doctrine, myth, etc.,
has reference to a political and cultural
plan, with necessary means of
putting it into action. The correct ideology
is an invincible weapon against
the oppressor in our struggle for liberation.
Pan-Africanist philosophers around
the world have taught us the correct
classical principles in our ideological
struggle, but they have never truly
dealt with the struggle of African
people in the United States. Although
their principles apply, it is our duty to
carry these principles further by our
political work among the masses. Only
when we bridge the gap between theory
and practice, do we see any type of
an ideology formed. This bridge gives
further meaning to our political work
Historically, through our involve-

The Ideology of the Black Student Union
ment, we have found that organizations
cannot give us a political ideology.
They can only give us an ideological
framework in which to define
our experiences, as we move about implementing
programs and doing necessary
political work. The classical
principles of Pan-Africanism constitutes
the ideological framework or
the theory, and the experiences we
gain by teaching these principles to
the masses constitutes our ideology
(the practice). We teach in various
ways: community programs, lectures,
newspapers, etc. When we take our
ideological framework to the people,
we bridge the gap between theory
and practice. A political organization
that does not bridge that gap
becomes static and fails, whereas
those that do, continually succeed
in their struggle for freedom and liberation.
In order for our struggle to move in
the direction we desire, we must
clearly understand the classical
principles of revolutionary Pan-
Africanism. These principles are many
and varied, but we shall deal with
only those that apply to us and our
particular situation:
1. We are African people – Just because
we were ripped away from Africa
does not change our origin.
Does kidnapping a person change his
identity? We came from Africa, so we
are Africans! Our future is bounded
up with Africa. England, France, the
U.S. make divisions between us such
as Negroes, Colored, African, etc.
because it is to their advantage. But
among Africans there must be no division.
We are African – period.
2. We must be revolutionary internationalist
– We understand that our
struggle is part of the entire world
struggle of African people. We say
especially the struggle of African
people because we are Pan-
Africanists. We realize that we must
first organize and unify all Africans because
this is the most natural and efficient
path to freedom. We are a nation.
We can identify Africans physically, on
the basis of color. We know that all Africans
have been assaulted by the exploitation
and racism put out by European
and the U.S. controllers. That is one
common bond. It is in our interests to
unite ourselves because we must eliminate
the oppression put down by the present
controllers. So, we must first organize
ourselves. It would be unrealistic
for black people to go out into Williamsville,
Paris, France or Scotland to organize
non-Africans in Buffalo, and in the
U.S., on the African continent, in the Caribbean,
South America, Europe, Australia
and any other place where Africans are
now living. This does not mean we are
against the struggle of other people for
their own self-determination. We will
work with and support all socialist movements
that are working towards the independence
of their people and ending exploitation.
But our energy will be concentrated
on organizing African people
and strengthening our own nation.
3. Our fight must be against racism and
capitalism – We do not agree that by destroying
capitalism, you automatically
destroy racism. Revolutionary socialist
Cuba has taught us that Cuba has been
trying to rid itself of the situation where
lighter skinned Cubans have been
pressed for preferential treatment from
the government that the Cuban society.
These lessons gained from the movement
of African people the world over have
taught us we have to fight against both
capitalism and racism. Capitalism was not
designed for the majority of the people;
it serves as a vehicle by which the rich
stay richer at the expense of the poor
and color people of the world. Racism
operates exploitation on color lines.
4. Land is the basis of independence – We
don’t mean that as soon as you get a deed
for a piece of soil you become independent.
To be independent, you must control
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the land. The school in your neighborhood are part of the land, the stores are
part; the houses, factories, power plants, are all part of the land. We must control
these! Until we control these, we are only tenants on somebody else’s
land. We understand that with this land, it is our duty to create a nation. We use
the land to produce the things that are necessary for our survival and growth.
A nation is a group of people who control a certain land, who have the same interests
ad background and are moving toward the same goals, using a unified, organized
plan. The African nation is composed of black people who are working
for all-African unity and founded on the principles of socialism.
It is our duty to apply these Pan-African principles and carry them to their furthest
potential – implementation. Another legacy left to us is to bring forth new
revolutionary Pan-African principles, derived from our constant participation.
Let us always remember the words of Frantz Fanon:
“It is a question of the Third World starting a new history of man, a history which
will have regards to the sometimes prodigious these which Europe has put forward,
but which will also not forget Europe’s crimes, of which the most horrible
was committed in the heart of man, and consisted of the pathological tearing
apart of his functions and the crumbling away of his unity. And in the framework
of the collectivity there were differentiations, the stratification, and the bloodthirsty
tensions fed by classes; and finally, on the immense scale of humanity,
there were racial hatreds, slavery, exploitation, and above all the bloodless
genocide which consisted in the setting aside of fifteen thousand millions of men.
So, comrades, let us not pay tribute to Europe by creating states, institutions,
and societies which draw their inspiration from her.
Humanity is waiting for something from us other than such imitation, which would
be almost an obscene caricature…
If we wish to live up to our peoples’ expectations, we must seek the response elsewhere
than in Europe.”
The Infamous one time meeting of Malcolm X and Martin
Luther King Jr.
Martin on Malcolm X:
“He was an eloquent spokesman for his point of view and
no one can honestly doubt that Malcolm had a great concern
for the problems that we face as a race. While we did
not always see eye to eye on methods to solve the race
problems, I always had a deep affection for Malcolm and
felt that he had the great ability to put his finger on the existence
and root of the problem.”
-In a telegram to Betty Shabazz after the murder of Malcolm X.
Malcolm on Martin:
"I want Dr. King to know that I didn't come to Selma to
make his job difficult. I really did come thinking I could
make it easier. If the white people realize what the alternative
is, perhaps they will be more willing to hear Dr.
King."
-- in a conversation with Mrs. Coretta Scott King.
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By Sonya Sampson
Black Solidarity Day
Many people have misconceptions of exactly what is Black Solidarity
Day. People believe that it is just a day Black people stop working and
only support Black owned businesses, yet they don’t understand why.
However Black Solidarity Day is much more than that.
It all started out with the play A Day of Absence by Douglas T. Ward in
1966. From this Play, Dr. Carlos Russell, a professor at Brooklyn College,
started Black Solidarity Day, the first Monday in November. This
tradition which started in 1969 was a cry for Africans in the Diaspora to
come together regardless of their religion, political affiliations, class, or
social status. The cry echoed the teachings of El Hajj Malik El Shabazz
(Malcolm X) who taught us that we were not oppressed because of our
religion, class, or status, but because we were Black. In 1969, the call
was for Blacks to stay home – no work, no school, and no travel. By stay-
1964 Olympics
ing home, we show our unity of purpose against the aggression as we
rekindle the spirit of family while giving respect to those who have been the physical victims of the onslaught
and oppression.
One of the main purposes for having Black Solidarity Day on the first Monday in November, which is the day
before elections, was to show political leaders who the African-American community felt about politics and to
show our strength and that we will not be ignored when it comes to election day.
As we continue on our struggle, let us not forget that Black Solidarity Day should not happen just once a year,
but it should happen everyday of our lives until all of our goals are accomplished.
Black Solidarity Day 2005 Outside the Student Union
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JOANNE DEBORAH CHESIMARD
ACT OF TERRORISM - DOMESTIC TERRORISM; UNLAWFUL FLIGHT TO AVOID CONFINEMENT - MURDER
Aliases: Assata Shakur, Joanne Byron, Barbara Odoms, Joanne Chesterman, Joan Davis, Justine Henderson, Mary Davis,
Pat Chesimard, Jo-Ann Chesimard, Joanne Debra Chesimard, Joanne D. Byron, Joanne D. Chesimard, Joanne
Davis, Chesimard Joanne, Ches Chesimard, Sister-Love Chesimard, Joann Debra Byron Chesimard, Joanne Deborah
Byron Chesimard, Joan Chesimard, Josephine Henderson, Carolyn Johnson, Carol Brown, "Ches"
DESCRIPTION
Dates of Birth Used: July 16, 1947;
August 19, 1952
Hair: Black/Gray
Place of Birth: New York City, New York Eyes: Brown
Height: 5'7" Sex: Female
Weight: 135 to 150 pounds Race: Black
NCIC: W220305367 Nationality: American
Occupation: Unknown
Scars and Marks: Chesimard has scars on her chest, abdomen, left shoulder, and left knee.
Remarks: Chesimard may be living in Cuba. She may wear her hair in a variety of styles and dress in African
tribal clothing.
CAUTION
Joanne Chesimard is wanted for escaping from prison in Clinton, New Jersey, while serving a life sentence for murder. On May 2,
1973, Chesimard, who was part of a revolutionary activist organization known as the Black Liberation Army, and two accomplices
were stopped for a motor vehicle violation on the New Jersey Turnpike by two troopers with the New Jersey State Police. At the time,
Chesimard was wanted for her involvement in several felonies, including bank robbery. Chesimard and her accomplices opened fire
on the troopers, seemingly without provocation. One trooper was wounded and the other was shot and killed execution-style at pointblank
range. Chesimard fled the scene, but was subsequently apprehended. One of her accomplices was killed in the shoot-out and
the other was also apprehended and remains in jail.
In 1977, Chesimard was found guilty of first degree murder, assault and battery of a police officer, assault with a dangerous weapon,
assault with intent to kill, illegal possession of a weapon, and armed robbery. She was sentenced to life in prison.
On November 2, 1979, Chesimard escaped from prison and lived underground before being located in Cuba in 1984. She is thought
to currently still be living in Cuba.
REWARD
The FBI is offering a reward of up to $1,000,000 for information directly leading to the apprehension of Joanne Chesimard.
(taken from: http://www.fbi.gov/mostwant/june2005/junechesimard.htm)
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Hands off Assata
Last Semester I had the opportunity
to read a book
unlike any other that I have
read before. That book was
ASSATA. ASSATA awakened
a part of my soul that
released anger, frustration,
and even a little hatred. It
enraged me how a person
fighting for not only their
right as a human being in
America but also for the
rights of others, was targeted
and categorized as a “domestic terrorist”.
Having the opportunity to take a glimpse in the
life of a social/political activist and to see how
they were tried in the “free and just” American Judicial
System sickened me.
Later while on-line searching for more information
about the story of Assata Shakur I
found a letter written by her in 1998 while she
lives in exile in Cuba.
“My name is Assata Shakur, and I am a
20 th century escaped slave. Because of
government persecution I was left with
no other choice than to flee from political
repression, racism, and violence that
dominated the U.S. government’s policy
towards people of color. I am an expolitical
prisoner, and I have been living
in exile in Cuba since 1984.” (http://
www.iacenter.org/shakurlt.htm)
To understand why she states that she is a runaway
slave one must understand that
“The recent $1 million bounty [on her
head] is a contemporary version of the
Fugitive Slave Act. It is an attempt to
allow the US ruling class to reclaim a
latter-day fugitive who has fought so
heroically to free not just herself, but all
those held captive by racism and modern
wage-slavery. It is also a targeted
attack on the great refuge – the palenque
[Maroon Camp] – of socialist
Cuba.” (http://www.workers.org/2005/us/
assata-shakur-0519/)
To further their attempts in retrieving Assata from
Cuba
“on December 24, 1997, the New Jersey
State called a press conference to
announce that the New Jersey police
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had written a letter to Pope John
Paul II asking him to intervene on
their behalf and to aid in having
[her] extradited back to New Jersey
prisons.” (http://www.iacenter.org/
shakurlt.htm)
The million dollar bounty placed on Assata
Shakur’s head was announced on May 2,
2005, thirty-two years after the New Jersey
Turnpike shootout. Kathleen Cleaver, former
wife of Eldridge Cleaver of the Black Panthers,
has questions about this revelation that
I think we need to ourselves look at:
What triggered this renewed interest in
Assata?
Why spend so much time and money
to hunt her down when Osama bin
Laden, head of an international terrorist
enterprise, remains at large.
And I also want to know, what effects will this
have on American/Cuban relations, especially
since Castro refuses to allow Shakur to be extradited.
According to Shakur’s attorney, Evelyn
A. Williams, the reason for all of this is
“The State Department hopes to fulfill
three simultaneous goals. First, divert
attention from its own history of harboring
terrorists by resurrecting the phony
charges against Shakur in an endeavor
to undermine Cuba’s credibility on this
issue. Washington is hoping that this
smokescreen will provide a shield from
the international scrutiny that could force
it to take action against Posada Carilles
[an international terrorist, supported by
the CIA, and who now currently resides
in Miami, Florida]. It is also a way of deflecting
criticism over the harsh sentences
dealt to the Cuban 5, who were in
the US trying to protect Cuba from terrorists
like Posada Carilles.
“Secondly, the bounty could become another
piece of the overall strategy to isolate
Cuba and sabotage its economy.
The US ruling class cannot be pleased
with the news that Cuba’s revolution is
once again on solid financial footing. The
increase bounty may grant US propaganda
machine an opening to distort the
case of Assata Shakur and pressure
other governments to break diplomatic
relations and economics ties with Cuba.

“A third goal furthered by this bounty
is to intimidate the revolutionary antiimperialist
movement inside the
United States, particularly young
people and students. Shakur is a
symbol of struggle for millions of
working class youth and young people
of color. As the godmother of Tupac
Shakur, she holds a special
place inside the hip hop movement
for culture and justice.” (http://
www.workers.org/2005/us/assatashakur-0519/)
And this is one of the millions of reasons why
this magazine is written. Assata Shakur couldn’t
have stated it any better:
“Like most poor oppressed people in the
United States, I do not have a voice.
Black people, poor people in the US
have no real freedom of speech, no real
freedom of expression and very little
freedom of the press. The black press
and the progressive media has historically
played an essential role in the
struggle for social justice. We need to
continue and to expand that tradition.
We need to create media outlets that
help to educate our people and our children,
and not annihilate their minds…
People need to be educated as to what
is going on and to understand the connection
between the news media and
the instruments of repression in
Amerika. All I have is my voice, my
spirit, and the will to tell the truth…those
of you in the Black media, those of you
in the progressive media, those of you
who believe in truth freedom…to let people
know what is happening. We have
no voice, so you must be the voice of
the voiceless” (http://www.iacenter.org/
shakurlt.htm)
So being the voice of the voiceless, what are
we, as members of a group that has been oppressed
for centuries going to do to free one
of our own
WHAT YOU CAN DO RIGHT NOW
For more information about Assata Shakur’s
case and what you can do to support her,
please visit assatashakur.org or handsoffas-
Hands off Assata
sata.net, or call the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
at (718) 254-8800
http://www.assatashakur.org/cleaver_k.htm
http://www.sfbayview.com/081005/
assata081005.shtml
Assata Shakur’s appeal attorney explains her
case
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Celebrating the Tyrant: Should Columbus Day & Thanksgiving be
Celebrated?
By Rob Martin
The United States
of America has
gained the reputation
of being accepting
to those
who venture to
America with
dreams of a new
life. America was
founded upon
these very ideals,
as a way to escape
the tyranny abroad.
But in doing this America has failed to see that they
have become tyrants themselves.
Does anyone even stop to think about the people who
were the original inhabitants of this country, the Native
Americans? Do they ever consider the fact that America
was seized in a hostile takeover? No, it never occurs
to most people that this has even happened. But
to read a book about it or venture onto a reservation it
becomes clear that the Native people of this land have
been taken advantage of.
If people do not realize that this has happened then
they never have a reason to suspect that what has
been happening to the Natives is wrong. But the American
way of life has the tendency at times to be humiliating
to the Native Americans. The celebration of Columbus
Day is an example of this humiliation. While Americans
view it as the day America was discovered, Native
Americans see it as the day the hostile occupation of
the land began. It is celebrating the day the Natives
began to be conquered. For even further evidence of
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this humiliation one needs to only look to
Thanksgiving. American culture has accepted
Thanksgiving as the day the Native Americans
and the Pilgrims sat down together and shared
their first meal together. This is what is taught to
young children all across the country when in
fact this is nowhere near the truth of what really
had happened. Thanksgiving has been in Native
culture for many years, before Columbus
had even set foot on the shores of this land. It is
a way to give thanks to the natural world for providing
the sustenance for life. It should also be
said that in Native culture this is done repeatedly
throughout the year, not just once as it is in
American culture. This celebration is a complete
adaptation and patronization of the Native custom.
Most Americans do not realize that this tyranny
even exists. For most people Columbus Day
and Thanksgiving are just American holidays in
which banks and governmental organizations
are closed, when in fact they are truly celebrating
this tyranny. But Americans don’t see it this
way because they don’t consider the meanings
behind these days, and even if they did they
would recall the blindfolds that were draped over
their eyes at a young age that say Columbus
Day is for the celebration of the discovery of the
New World and Thanksgiving is a celebration of
that first meal between the Pilgrims and the Natives.
America has blinded itself from truth that it
has become what it once was trying to escape.

COINTELPRO Papers, & The Black
Revolution
By Professor Luis Nieves
We might best think of the U.S. polity as a dual system.
First, there are the elections, political personalities,…
This system is taught in the schools,
Then there is the system of coercive power that is used
to protect the dominant structure of the political economy,
specifically, the domestic and international interests
of corporate United States. This process is not
taught in the schools nor usually discussed in the press.
(However) …the state has little, if anything, to do with
popular rule or the creation of public policy. It is the ultimate
coercive instrument of class power.
PEOPLE of African descent who look at the world honestly
can readily understand why the Patriot Act came
about and how the Patriot Act is only a tool to continue
western conquest and supremacy. Africans, Afro-
Caribbeans and African Americans need to understand
how the U.S. state operates and understand the clear
continuation of policies that ensure that the U.S. continues
to dominate the world and that American state and
capitalist interests are served. People committed to African
American liberation need to understand the role of
the state because it is a life and death issue.
State and capitalist economy: Europe began its conquest
of the world as the state and capitalist economy
emerged. Franke Wilmer points out that western states
developed as “the separation of political and spiritual
life…. The dichotomy of metaphysical and material authority...
became distinct, freeing political institutions to
serve purely economic rather than moral ends.” She
continues “Eventually political institutions were organized
in pursuit of materialism and materialism became
the primary focus of public life.” The state and capitalist
developed a symbiotic relationship because “The budding
capitalists found a territorially centralized organization
increasingly useful for protecting property rights at
home and abroad, while monarchs found growing capitalist
wealth an important source of revenue for emerging
states.” Event though poor whites were exploited,
the Euro-American elite used white supremacy, and fear
of blacks and other people of color to unite poor whites
in supporting capitalism and empire building.
White supremacy: Europeans and Euro-Americans
led a global war and a process of conquest that “For approximately
five hundred years, European civilizations
subjugated or destroyed peoples around the world. By
the 1890s, about 85% of the land mass of the earth was
either a colony or a former colony of Europe. During this
long period of conquest, Europeans developed an intensive
and impressive body of ideologies to explain their
success as the inevitable result of the inherent superiority
of their culture, …although their expansion was actu-
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ally the result of military success.” (Dion-Buffalo and
Mohawak, 1994, p-33) This ideology was white supremacy,
and today it is embedded in every aspect of
American life. Because of this embeddedness, state
officials utilize racism to united the Euro-American
community behind empire-building and to control immigrant
flows into this country.
Initially white supremacy justified genocide against
the Indigenous peoples, and Africans slavery. The
U.S. used military power to crush and kill the Indigenous
peoples and to ensure that the slave trade was
protected. The courts legitimated these processes,
protected Euro-Americans that committed genocide,
and gave slave traders and owners full protection of
the law. When slaves ran away, or revolted, the police,
militia and U.S. military was used to suppress
these rebellions.
COINTELPRO: Whenever a significant threat
arises, the state will utilize its power to destroy that
opposition. To fulfill its role as protector of the existing
order, the state often circumvents whatever democratic
restraints exist within the government. The late
FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover noted in a 1970 interview
that “justice is merely incidental to law and order. It’s
a part of law and order but not the whole of it.” During
the 1970’s the US state instituted a program called
COINTELPRO. The reason for this was that after
WWII most former colonies launched liberation struggles
and there was the real possibility of a world revolution.
The Black struggle in the U.S. was central to
that struggle, “Often our lives depended upon the
quality of our thinking and decisions. This critical
thinking at such a young age matured many of us,
and we began to see our struggle as one deeply attached
to international realities and liberations struggles
and both Malcolm and Martin were part of this
world revolution. They were killed, as were others
Similarly, today the U.S. utilizes the Patriot Act to
deflect and suppress any criticisms of its conquest of
Iraq. One way it does this is to draw upon the embedded
racism in Euro-American society and to insist that
America must bring civilization to Iraq, and to use
Euro-American fears that they are being threatened
by Iraqis, and immigrants. They also draw upon the
Euro-American psychology that those they oppressed
will commit the same violence against them. So, despite
opposition to the Iraq war, the U.S. continues
and will continue to wage war in Iraq because it is in
the interests of the state and certain sectors of capitalist
economic interests (particularly oil). That state
exercises political domination and helps provide ac-

cess to resources for the capitalist class.
CURRENTLY, the US is reasserting itself as the sole superpower and utilizing military, diplomatic and political
power to achieve this by invading Iraq. To ensure that the state can achieve domination within the US continues to
draw upon embedded racism and uses fear to coercive the population into accepting “endless war against terrorism.”
Buffalo mayor-elect Byron Brown, with
his son, Byron III, and wife, Michelle, at
his side.
Mayoral Elections of Buffalo
From BuffaloNews.com 11/9 by Robert J. McCarthy
Byron William Brown, the
grandson of Caribbean
immigrants, swept to a
landslide victory Tuesday
to be elected Buffalo's
58th - and first African-
American - mayor.
Democrat Brown
swamped his main opponent,
Republican
Kevin J. Helfer, 64 to 27
percent. Judith S. Ein-
ach of the Green Party captured 5 percent of the vote,
while Independence candidate Charles J. Flynn took 4
percent.
The 47-year-old state senator, after the most hardfought
general election campaign in a generation, captured
43,682 votes while Helfer registered 18,578 - with
all districts reporting. Significantly, Brown's numbers appeared
to be strong in all sections of the city.
Brown began his status as "mayor-elect" as he entered a
Hyatt Regency Buffalo ballroom at around 10:05 p.m. to
claim victory and be greeted by a thunderous roar of approval.
Accompanied by his wife, Michelle, and son,
Byron III, his mother and mother-in-law, he never ventured
from his typical cool reserve.
And after years of Brown's preparation for a mayoral
campaign and this moment, some supporters wore Tshirts
that read "Let's make history."
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"Making history is great. But people want a good
mayor," he said. "They want me to be the best
mayor Buffalo has ever had. That's going to be my
goal each and every day."
Brown repeatedly stressed that his administration
will be one of inclusion that will work to improve
every part of Buffalo.
After his speech, Brown addressed concerns that he
might feel beholden to unions that provided substantial
support to his campaign.
"I will absolutely make a promise that I am not going
to be anybody's puppet," he said. "I will absolutely
put the interest of the people of Buffalo first."
"It is no small irony that Byron Brown was elected
only days after Rosa Parks was buried," he said,
referring to the civil rights pioneer. "Rosa Parks
changed this country, and tonight, Byron Brown
changes this city."
Turnout was 37 percent in 1989 and 61 percent in
the last hotly contested general election of 1977,
when James D. Griffin was elected.
Brown, who was born and raised in Queens, is the
first non-Buffalo native to win the city's top job since
Frank A. Sedita, who was born in New Orleans in
1907 but lived in Buffalo from the age of 4. He was
elected in 1957, 1965 and 1969.

What’s New for the UB Bulls Men’s Basketball Team
By Roderick Middleton
The starting backcourt will likely consist of a pair of
seniors - Cage and Middleton. Both players have
played significant roles in the success of the Bulls
over the past three years and will be looked upon
for leadership this season.
Cage had a breakout season in 2004-05. The 6-0
guard averaged a career-best 10.0 points per game
and was the Bulls’ top threat from beyond the arc
last season. After making 66 three-pointers over the
first two years of his career, Cage erupted to hit 66
treys last year alone. He ranked ninth in the Mid-
American Conference in both three-pointers made
and three-point field goal percentage (.373).
Middleton is the consummate team player. After
starting 18 straight games in 2004-05, he willingly
accepted a role as a reserve and responded by averaging
12.5 points over the final four games of the
regular season.
There will be a lot of youth behind Cage and Middleton
at the guard position. Four of the five freshmen
joining the Bulls in 2005 are guards.
Eric Moore (Morristown, NJ/St. Benedict’s) is a 6-1
point guard who hails from Morristown, NJ where he
played for perennial power St. Benedict’s Prep.
Moore helped lead the Gray Bees to a combined
58-3 record and back-to-back Prep A championships
as a junior and senior. Moore also spent two
years at Morristown-Beard High School where he
earned first-team All-Morris County and Coaches
All-County honors. Andy Robinson (Schenectady,
NY/Schenectady) is a gifted defensive player from
Schenectady, NY. Robinson averaged 14.5 points,
5.0 rebounds and 5.1 assists as a senior. He was a
three-time All-Capital District selection and was the
runner-up for the Capital District Player of the Year
award as a senior.
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Sean Smiley (Erie, PA/
McDowell) is a 6-1 guard
from Erie, PA. He finished
his career as McDowell
High School’s all-time leading
scorer (1,426 points)
and holds the school record
for career three-pointers.
Smiley averaged 17.0
points, 5.3 rebounds, 4.9
assists and 2.1 steals per
game as a senior.
Greg Gamble (Niagara
Falls, NY/Niagara Falls),
Roderick Middleton of the UB
Bulls Men’s Basketball Team
who could see time at both the guard and forward positions,
is already a household name to many Western
New York basketball fans. Gamble averaged 14.3
points, 5.8 rebounds and 3.5 assists his senior season
to help lead Niagara Falls High School to the New
York Federation and State championship titles.
Also providing depth in the backcourt will be junior
Darwin Young (Buffalo, NY/Hutch Technical). The former
walk-on has appeared in seven games in each of
the last two seasons.
The Frontcourt. Mario Jordan is the Bulls’ lone senior
in the frontcourt. The emotional leader of the team,
Jordan averaged 6.9 points and 4.3 rebounds per
game while starting 18 games last season. The 6-6
forward scored in double figures 10 times last season,
including a season-high 19 points against Northern
Illinois on Jan. 25. For the third straight season, Yassin
Idbihi will be the Bulls’ starting center. The 6-10
Morocco-native is coming off another successful season.
Idbihi averaged 9.9 points and a team-best 5.9
rebounds per game last year. Idbihi isn’t afraid to pull
the trigger from beyond the arc as he ranked fifth on
the squad with 19 three-pointers last season. Idbihi
stepped up his game in the Mid-American Conference
Tournament - averaging 11.7 points and 6.5 rebounds

per game. For his efforts, the Bulls’ center was
named to the MAC All-Tournament Team.
Smith appeared in 24 games and started the final
14 games of the 2004-05 campaign. The 6-6, 225lb.
forward averaged 2.4 points and 2.1 rebounds in
9.4 minutes per game. Smith will likely earn more of
a workload in 2005-06. Smith led the Bulls in field
goal percentage last season, shooting 51.4 percent
from the field. He also showed that he has athleticism
to go along with his size by blocking nine
shots, including five over the final eight games of
the season.
Andrew Atman (Pittsburgh, PA/Upper St. Clair) is a
7-0 forward who saw limited action as a red-shirt
freshman last season. He appeared in two games,
but didn’t score. Atman is a unique player in that
despite being a seven-footer, he prefers to play
more of a perimeter game. He has a solid stroke
from the outside.
After red-shirting as a freshman, Christian Schmidt
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(Chemnitz, Germany/Schloss Hagerhof) is ready to
make his mark on the UB basketball program. The
Germany-native is a 6-8 forward who, like Atman, prefers
more of a perimeter game. Schmidt shot 44.0
percent from the international three-point line as a
senior in high school.
Vadim Fedotov (Munich, Germany/Schloss Hagerhof)
is a freshman forward from Germany who was a high
school teammate of Idbihi and Schmidt. At 6-9, 270,
Fedotov has extreme size and the Bulls hope that he
will be able to contribute right away. He averaged 25
points and 11 rebounds per game his senior season
and his 44 points scored in a game stands as a
school record.
Barnard Onyenucheya (Bronx, NY/John F. Kennedy)
is a sophomore walk-on who joined the team midway
through last season. The 6-6 forward should provide
depth in the frontcourt.

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Civil Rights Quiz
1) Which former slave and noted abolitionist edited and published The North Star, an abolitionist newspaper?
A) Philis Wheatly
B) Benjamin Banneker
C) Frederick Douglass
2) The 15th Amendment, which granted African Americans the right to vote, was passed on which date?
A) February 3, 1870
B) July 14, 1889
C) November 19, 1910
3) Which civil rights activist gained notoriety in the late nineteenth century for her scathing editorials denouncing
racial injustice?
A) Sojourner Truth
B) Zora Neale Hurston
C) Ida B. Wells
4) Noted African-American intellectual and civil rights activist W.E.B. DuBois was a founding member of
which organization in 1909?
A) National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
B) The National Negro Business League
C) Southern Christian Leadership Conference
5) Which landmark Supreme Court case represented an important victory for the civil rights movement in
1954?
A) Plessy v. Ferguson
B) Dred Scott v. Sandford
C) Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
6) Who is generally considered the mother of the civil rights movement?
A) Harriet Tubman
B) Susan B. Anthony
C) Rosa Parks
7) Which of the following propelled Martin Luther King, Jr. to national prominence as a leader of the civil
rights movement?
A) He led the boycott (55-56) by African Americans in Montgomery, AL, against the segregated city bus lines.
B) He organized the massive March on Washington (1963), at which he gave his famous “I Have A Dream” speech.
C) He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (1964) for his philosophy of nonviolence resistance
* ANSWERS IN THE NEXT ISSUE*
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