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THE PANT HER-APRIL,! 97 3 Page 10 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 ^^The^egen^f^iggm^Charljg 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.