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Monday, October 14
THE MAROON TIGER
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On The
Bookshelf
Faces at the Bottom of the Well
By Derrick Bell
Invisible Man ,
By Raplh Ellison
Parable of the Sower
By Octavia Butler
Behold a Pale Horse
By William Cooper
Metu Neter Vol. I
By Ra Un Nefer Amen I
The Temple of my Familiar
By Alice Walker
The Dermis Probe
By Idries Shah
Of Water and the spirit
By Malidoma Patrice Some
Speak My Name
Edited By Don Belton
The Stranger
By Albert Camus
Push
By Sapphire
The Truth According to Tony Brown
By Tony Brown
The Tao of Pooh
By Benjamin Huff
Are You Ready?Then Get On The Bus
By Gregory Johnson, Jr.
A & E Co-Editor
On October 16,1995, over
one million Black men met in
Washington, D.C. That's a fact.
Their steps formed a collective
leap towards moral, social and
spiritual redefinition of Black
Manhood. That's the story.
Will memories of the "miracle
at the Mall" fade, leaving us
with a naked fact? In years to
come, who will tell the whole
story?
The journalist, author,
actor, and director of West
Africa, the griot immortalized
his people's legacy.
"Blackballed" from the most
powerful media on earth, our
modern griots perenially
struggle to reclaim our
identity. In Get On the Bus,
director Spike Lee brings them
together in a new film, a new
victory in this struggle.
As one character gripes, .
"Hollywood thinks they've
got us all summed up."So, in
"the spirit of self-reliance and
self-empowerment," Lee says,
he turned down studio money
and raised 2.5 million dollars
in contributions by Black men:
Lee, Danny Glover, Wesley
Snipes, Will Smith, Johnnie
Cochran, Jheryl Busby, BET
CEO Robert Johnson, and
many others made the film
happen financially.
Lee also recruited a
dream-team cast of veteran
actors and bright new stars to
portray a diverse group of
brothers on a bus to the
Million-Man March. The trip
brings together generations:
the elder whose prayers,
memories and djembe drum
begin, guide and end the
journey meaningfully; the
"working joe" driver
determined to get them there;
the young film student who
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Sculptor Donald Brown Showcases His Talent
By Reginald Berry
Staff Writer
&
By Kenji Jasper
A & E Co-Editor
Energy. Voice. Focus. This
is how Donald Brown
describes art. But after
meeting him, it's visible that
these words could possibly
apply to himself as well.
Morehouse students have
recently had the opportunity
to see Brown working on a
new sculpture outside of the
Kilgore Hall snack bar in the
past few weeks. He's come to
Morehouse to give students
the opportunity to see a Black
sculptor at work. He knows
that many black people have
never seen or heard of
sculptors and as a result he's
been well-received by the
students.
"We have dreams but we
don't chase them," Brown
says. He believes that people,
especially Black people, limit
themselves in what they can
accomplish. He says that
people choose to focus on one
talent instead of using all the
talents they have to their
advantage.
Brown was born in
Overhampton, a small town in
England, the son of a mill
worker and a nurse. He's been
sculpting since he was eleven
and has been shaping and
molding ever since.
In addition to being an
artist, Brown is also a
businessman. His business
skills are primarily utilized to
market his work. He
believes his success has
come from his ability to
combine both skills to
keep bread on the table.
In his art, Brown has
not only made an effort
to represent Blacks but,
more importantly, to
make art accessible to
those who wish to own
it. He prices his own
work far below typical
prices that most people
can't afford.
But Brown isn't
stopping at just making
the art. His next project
is setting up a place to
display it. "The Black
Achievement Hall of
Fame" will artistically
display the greatest
achievements of African
Americans. You never know
when or where his museum
might turn up. But with an
imagination like Brown's? You
might want to look out of your
window when you wake up in
the morning.
We have dreams but
we don’t chase them,”
Brown says. He
believes that people,
especially Black
people, limit
themselves in what
they can accomplish.