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Monday, October 14
THE MAROON TIGER
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1) What would we do without the last minute? 2)
When does the pain end and the healing begin? 3)
How come some of all y'all are all in my toilet bowl
and STILL don't know sh*t? 4) Isn't it ironic that you
couldn't form Voltron without all the lions? 5) Keep it
real, what are the REAL odds that you'll get with a
sister from Howard this weekend? 6) If a dashiki
makes you an African, does a Bulls jersey make you
Jordan? 7) How you gonna talk about righteousness
and murder in the
same sentence? 8) Is
it me, or do a grip of
Morehouse men
look like Dark-N-
Lovely ran through
their cribs and went
wild? 9) Why are
folks frontin' like the CIA hasn't ALWAYS been in the
business of destroying our community? 10) When are
Morehouse professors gonna face facts and just move
Friday afternoon classes to the wall at Clark? 11) How
come its never that bad.. .until it happens to you? 12)
Why do egos stick to brothas like stink sticks to
politics? 13) Could all the people who think our paper
needs work, shut the hell up and start workin' WITH
us? 14) Look man, how many times are you gonna
mess up before you learn your lesson? 15) So what's it
like to be a part of this [new] World [order] House?
16) If God did not keep my mind, where would I be?
17) Why is having Tribe and Ice Cube at the same show
like having pancakes and chitlins at
the same meal? 18) Are you
only dork that isn't going
Underground Live
Wednesday? 19) Before
becomes the Black Elvis
y'all STOP claimin' that
saw his ass at Lenox? 20) Are
you still sleeping?
The Hand She Fans With
By Rodney Gabriel
Features Co-Editor
Home is where the heart
is. Right? Then, it would only
seem fitting that author Tina
McElroy Ansa decided to
begin the opening leg of her
cross-country tour at her alma
mater Spelman College,
promoting her latest release
The Hand I Fan With
(Doubleday, $23.95). With
family and friends in the
audience for her recent book
signing and reading, Ansa
could not help but express
"how good it is to be home,"
in her warm, southern accent.
Once again, in her new
novel, past readers are
reintroduced to the fabled
town of Mulberry, Georgia and
revisited by the likes of Lena
McPherson — a character the
author thought she had long
put back on the shelf in Baby
of the Family. Yet, Ansa was
quite reluctant in deciding
whether Lena would return.
"But people would come
up to me," she insists. "They
loved Lena.
"Oh, what happened to
Lena?" or "You know, I'm just
ready for the sequel" are just
some of the comments fans
made to her.
"And I would get very
literary on them: 'Well, uh, the
Author Tina McElroy relaxing at her
home on St. Simon Island.
work is finished, and I think it
speaks for itself. You know, I
don't think we have to go back
to the same well every time,"'
she sarcastically remarked in
defense to their questions.
"But I thought about it—Tina,
people wanna hear about
Lena."
And that they will. The
Hand I Fan With embodies the
same brand of folklore
and employs the use
of the ghosts and
spiritual world, which
made her two
previous novels
successful. Truly a
labor of love, the
whole story took Ansa
nearly two years to
complete and is
written in the author's
"mother language."
It is Ansa's
mother Nellie who
inspired her own love
for literature. "She
[my mother] would
read,” she recalls.
"And I would think as
the baby of the family,
center of the universe:
What in the world
could be in those
books that would
keep me from my
mama, keep my mama from
me?"
"When she'd put them
down," she continues. "I'd go
look at them, and they
wouldn't even have no
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Dennis Creates Clothes That Make A Statement
By Bekitemba Eric Taylor
Contributing Writer
Anthony Dennis said that
when people wear his designs,
they are wearing a statement.
Clearly there is a lot to be said
for a t-shirt with a faceless,
nameless man on the front of
it.
But, that's what Dennis,
an Austell resident, wanted
customers to notice about the
logo he developed for No
Names designs, also the name
of his store at 60 Poplar St. in
downtown Atlanta.
"I don't know exactly how
the ideas come to me," said
Dennis, "but they seem to pop
into my head and I just have
to draw them from there." He
explained that after he draws
the look for his clothes, he
rummages through magazines
to find colors and styles that
correspond with his drawings.
Dennis said that his urban
underground gear should not
be confused with hip-hop
wear. "My clothes are more on
a conscious level, and hip-hop
is more trendy," he said. The
Buffalo, NY native said his
focus group is 18-45, whereas
hip-hop is mainly high school
through 24.
"I want to take clothing to
another level," said Dennis.
He explained that No Names
takes a chance at telling and
showing black people the
struggles that they once had as
slaves, and how they are still
under the spell of those
conditions.
"When people wear my
clothes," said Dennis, "I want
them to learn about our
struggle. I don't want them to
forget about when we did not
have identity, and how we
used to be faceless, nameless
men and women with no
value," he said.
One of Dennis' favorite
example of urban
consciousness is his
"Reminisce." The powerful t-
shirt line features a plantation
on the front where African
families are being ripped apart
by planters, overseers and
slave drivers.
"When I thought of
Reminisce, I drew it so that
whoever wears it will know
what it was really like," said
Dennis. "If you look at it
closely, you can see a mother
being dragged away from her
children, and a husband and
wife being pulled apart so that
he can be auctioned off," he
said.
On the back of
"Reminisce", there is a
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