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Heritage Song
Lift every voice and sing, Till earth and heaven ring,
Ring with the harmonies of liberty; Let our rejoicing
rise
High as the list’ning skies, Let it resound loud as the
rolling sea.
Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught
us;
Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought
us;
Facing the rising sun of our new day begun,
Let us march on till victory is won.
Thorny the road we trod, Bitter the chast’ning rod,
Felt in the days when hope unborn had died; Yet with a
steady beat,
Have not our weary feet, Come to the place for which
our fathers sighed?
We have come over a way that with tears has been
watered,
We have come treading our path thro’ the blood of the
slaughtered,
Out of the gloomy past, till now we stand at last,
Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.
God of our weary years, God of our silent tears,
Thou who hast brought us thus far on the way;
Thou who hast by Thy might, Led us into the light,
Keep us forever in the path, we pray.
Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where
we meet Thee,
Lest our hearts, drunk with the wine of the world, we
forget Thee;
Shadowed beneath Thy hand, may we forever stand,
True to our God, true to our native land.
It Pays To
Advertise
A lady about seven months
pregnant got on the bus and
sat down. She noticed the
man opposite of her was
smiling. She infigently
moved. This time the smile
changed to a grin, so she
moved again. The man be
came more amused a third
time, and upon the fourth
move the man burst out
laughing.
She complained to the
conductor and the man was
arrested. The case came to
court and the judge asked
the man if he had anything
to say. “Well, your Ho
nor,’’ he said “It was like
this. When the lady got on
the bus I couldn’t help noti
cing her condition. She sat
under a sign tat read, ‘The
Gold Dust Twins are com
ing.’ I had to smile. Then
she sat under a sign which
read “Sloan Linement will
reduce that swelling’ when
she placed herself under the
sign “Williams, Big Stick
Did the Trick,’ I could har
dly control myself and when
she moved the fourth time
and sat under the sign which
said “Goodyear Rubber
could have prevented this
accident “I laughed out
loud.”
“Case dismissed.”
Review: BLACK GIRL
Directed by Ossie Favis
Screenplay by J.E. Franklin
The trouble with most
black movies today is the
reinforcing effect they have
on stereotypes: men and
studs, women are used as
tools, crime is unbelieva
ble, and political aspects
are irrelevant.
Yet trough the flawless
fashion of the casts’ actors,
Black Girl strikes the myth
Black America, the source
of strength for a Black fa
mily being the mother. Some
where in the course of the
movie all effects, are lost,
mainly as the children’s
story of breaking away from
the family as a means of sur -
vival.
The family is shown as
being circled with frustra
tion, viciousness, and vio
lence. The audience appears
to have first hand experience
and observations as all ex
plosive relationships are
captured as the movie heigh
tens. Black Girl then losses
possession of the emotional
energy, after what should
ESSENCE
The Essence of my Black man, strong
intelligent, masculine and wise.
The Essence of me - - his strong intelligent
Black woman.
The Essence of us, One! We come together as one.
We love and we love and we love!
We bear our children proudly!
They grow strong, like the Redwoods
of the forrest! But they are Black! Black
Strong, tall, proud. Blackwoods!
Our love, my man and mine’s, is a love
that can endure time, a love that exists
through the pains of mere existence! To
believe in just being! To believe in faith!
To believe in the faith of Blackness - -
to come to go! To believe in God,
he will return - - soon!
The Essence of us!
The Essence of our love!
FEBRUARY 18 - Sunday - Religious Emphasis Con
vocation - Centerwide Founder’s Day.
MARCH - 5-6- Monday Tuesday - Mid-Semester Exa
mination.
APRIL 9-13 Monday - Friday - Registration for stu
dents currently enrolled - 19 Thursday - Spring re
cess begins at end of scheduled classes. 25 Monday -
Spring recess ends, classes resume ta
Spring recess ends, classes resume at 8:00 a.m.
MAY 7 Monday - 15 Tuesday Second Semester Final
Examination begin, Second Semester closes. All grades
due in Office the Registrar by noon.
20 Sunday Baccalaureate Services. 21 Monday Com-
Tmencement Services.
JUNE 11- Monday Atlanta University Summer School
Registration
MOVIES TO BE SHOWN IN 1973
Second Semester
!. Airport
2. Billy Jack
3. Cotton Comes to Harlem
4. Butch Cassiday
5. The Wild Bunch
6. Bullitt
7. Planet of the Apes
8. Beneath the Planet of the Apes
9. Bonnie and Clyde
10. French Connection
11. Sweet Sweetback
12. The Illustrater Man
13. The Organization
14. Cool Breeze
15. The Robe
16. The Committee
17. Play Misty for Me
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BLACK COLLEGE
IN JEPARDY
Washington, D.C. (CPS;
A recent U.S. District Court
ruling has once again
brought about the question
of the legality of certain
Southern states practice
of maintaining black state
colleges in the immediate
area of predominantly white
state schools.
The constitutionality of
such practices is being de
bated in a case brought
against Elliot L. Richard
son, outgoing Secretary of
Health, Education, andWel-
fare (HEW), by black plain
tiffs represented by the
NAACP legal defense fund.
In a preliminary ruling,
U. S. District Judge John
H. Pratt ruled on behalf of
the black plaintiffs on the
basis that HEW had neglect
ed to fully enforce Title VI
of the Civil Rights Act of
1964, which prohibits dis
crimination in any phase of
a program receiving federal
funds. State colleges and
universities fall into this
category.
Pratt explained that four
years ago, HEW began col
lecting reports on ten Sou
thern states which maintaii
them states which main
tained segregated state col
leges. But for the past two
years, according to Pratt,
HEW has failed to persuade
the states to draw up dese
gregation plans.
It is generally believed
that Pratt will direct HEW
to immediately require
these states to submit plans
for the desegregation of
public colleges. After sub
mitting these plans, each
college will be required to
submit to questions con
cerning the constitutiona
lity of those plans by the
black plaintiffs.
The question of the future
of black public colleges
raises an issue which for
ces plaintiffs and attorneys
into an awkward position.
For years, groups such as
the NAACP have fought to
nullify the “separate but
equal doctrine” in public
Who Would Care
if a miniature missile should streak
through my skull into my brain, and
blood seeps out slowly down my neck,
wetting my Black skin, dyeing it death red, and my
soul ooozes out, as knowledge, sanity, and Life
slip away. . . .
who would care if i should die?
if that steady rhythmic pulse should lose
its constancy; and the endless flow cease to run.
if my dark color should turn still darker
because Life’s fluid has stopped,
and the soul is gone,
and all Life has ended
who would care if i should die?
when i can no longer make known my Love
nor give my help nor my honor,
when i am no longer an animation
and my lips cannot say ‘I Love You!!
who would care if i should die?
by Michael Puerre Fears
have been a climaxing final
scene is softened.
Billie Jean (Peggy Pet-
titt), drops temporarily out
of school, wants to be a dan
cer. Despite the impatience
of her mother, Mama Rosie
(Louise Stubbs).
Billie Jean wants to be the
first of her daughters to
‘amount to anything’. Tur
moil is added by the mock
ery of her two half sisters,
Norma (Gloria Edwards),
and Ruth Ann (loretta
Green), Netta (Leslie Ug-
gams), the daughter of a
neighboring crazy lady
(Ruby Dee), has been unof
ficially adopted by Mama
Rosie. Netta has been help
ed through college by Mama
Rosie and is,eternal held as
an example to her children
of what she expected of them
and now is depending on
Billie Jean to do so.
“You couldn’t keep your
dresses down” is spoken
constantly and resentfully
by Mama Rosie to her two
older daughters as the rea
son why they didn’t make it
through school. She also
showers on ner mother
(Claudia McNeil) and ex-
husband Earl (Brook Pe
ters), who had moved to De
troit. Earl is pictured as a
hustler, with plenty of
money, fancy clothes, and
the baddest set of wheels
on the block. However, the
rage seen in Mama Rosie
can be attributed to the hu
miliation and desperation
she is victimized. Leslie
Uggams, perhaps too mousy
and tentative, after being
almost physically assaulted
by Billie Jean’s two older
sisters for trying tobe”so-
much’ ’ and persuading
Billie to go back to school,
is finally driven away. Bil
lie Jean however does go
back to school, finally to
have matured Black in Ame
rica.