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Volume XLIV No www.spelmanspotlight.com Tuesday, March 28, 2006 rw, fjgr V 1 ; : . 1 Youth spend time at Spelman Spelmanites show young students a day in their lives. Redfish cooks up » creole cuisine Spotlight’s Shayla Ball reviews Atlanta restaurant. SWinQS into Softball season action JL. T T T n i A, A, BAM Poets inspires Spelman’s campus Goapele wants to ‘Change It AH’ Gina Lawrence interviews Goapele about her new album and website. P5 Summer livin’ Summertime means summer internships. Now that you have the job, you need the housing. The Spotlight has some suggestions. P3 CNN launches touring fitness initiative Pic Jr D Nicole Barden Staff Writer Brittny Ray, junior, reads Mari Evans’ “lAm A Black Woman”. March 17, 2006, Spelman hosted part two of the series “Conversations with Black Arts Movement Poets” featur ing Haki Madhubuti with Jessica Care Moore. The Spelman community came to Cosby Auditorium to hear the poets. The event was sponsored by the English Department with assistance from the Georgia Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities. “It’s a wonderful thing to see the next generation ol Spelman students influenced,” said President, Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum who delivered the welcome. She commended the English Department for their efforts to bring the poets to campus. “Many of us forget S how widespread the <-> Black Arts Movement was,” said — Sharan Strange, the £ coordinator of the event and a professor from the English Department. Most of the attention is directed towards the Northeast which Amiri Baraka and Sonia Sanchez rep resent. Being from the Midwest and focusing much of his work in that area, Madhubuti widens the scope. Madhubuti has published 26 books, and is noted for his numerous essays and poems. He is the chairman and pub lisher of Third World Press, which he founded in 1967. He is one of the major figures of the Black Arts Movement. In the introduction of the panelists, Strange quoted Mari Evans, who had to cancel her appearance due to a family emergency. “This [the Black Arts Movement] is the litera ture of love, the legacy of love. It is energized by the love of Black people.” The Black Arts Movement was a time period from the mid 1960s to the mid 1970s characterized by the influx of Black art. The work embraced Black culture, defined Black identity, and was politically charged. The movement is sometimes labeled as homo- phobic and sexist, but it is gen erally seen as a prolific time in Black literature. The event also acknowl edged poets from Spelman. Brittny Ray, a junior, English major and creative writing minor, read I Am A Black Woman by Mari Evans. Then Ray and Charla Johnson, a member of the class of 2005, read poems from their collec tions. The featured poets were then heard from. Moore read Not Your Average Angry Black Woman Poem, a petition for a national holiday for Black women. Butt for Sale, a criti cism ol assimilation, and Art, a praise ol art’s role in society, were read by Madhubuti. “What essentially saved me was literature and music,” said Madhubuti. Reading Black Boy, by Richard Wright was monumental, he revealed. “That started me on this long journey,” he said. Madhubuti credits his mother, who was in the sex trade business, as a major influence in his life. She was beaten to death when he was 16. “It’s nothing more painful than to see your mother servic ing men,” he said. Spriggs credits the Brown vs. Board of Education ruling in 1954 with setting the stage for the Black Arts Movement. The movement gained support due to a series of events that were not all centered on art he added. “It was not Baraka by him self. It was a context ol what had been going on in our lives prior to that time,” said Spriggs. “We don’t have this incredi ble movement,” said Moore, “we are lost in a lot of ways see Bam Poets on Pg 2 »> How do you stay fit? "I'm in the Diabetes program at Spelman, where I excer- sise by walking, doing yoga, and African dance." Tersheria Mitchell, freshman, biology major ‘Herstory’ Miriam Archibong Staff Writer The First Year Class Council co-sponsored the Sunday worship service in honor of Women’s Herstory Month, at Sisters Chapel Sunday, March 19. Reverend Melva L. Sampson was the keynote speaker for the serv ice. Rev. Sampson, WISDOM center project manager, encouraged Spelman women to remember that God has a plan for everyone, and reliance on Him sustain them and pre vent them from misusing, program celebrates Sisterhood Manager of Sisters Chapel, who spoke at the Herstory program. abusing or hurting one anoth er. Sampson asked students to be civil and courteous to one another as they walk across campus talking on their cell phones or sidekicks or as they listen to their MP3 players. She encouraged everyone to instead, make eye contact with each other and acknowledge one another as they walk to and from classes to show a kinship bond. At the close of Rev. Sampson’s sermon, she asked the audience to imagine a world wherein instead of thinking evil thoughts about others, people spoke of love. She described a world absent of prayers and wishes for material things, where people allow God to provide for their every need. “Imagine how sister hood could be strengthened, instead of being frustrated, upset and anxious... we should recognize the gift that God has already equipped us with. We need one another.” Rev. Sampson built on her theme of sisterhood, by asking see Herstory on Pg 2 »>