Wor ld renowned poet,
educator and writer Margaret
Walker AleX8DderwiD be speak
ing on the main campus of
Wayne State University
Thursday, May 12 at 7 p.m,
The program will De held at
the McGregor emorial Con
ference Center. In addition, she
will appear at the Detroit Public
Schools Foren iC; Festival,
. Friday, May 13 at 8:45 a.m. at the
• WSU General Lectures Hall
and for a poetry reading and lec
ture held at 7:30 p.m. at the
Rackham Auditorium at the En
gineering Society of Detroit, fol
lowed by a reception at the
Museum of African American
History.
Walker had her first volume
of poetry, For My People,
pu . hed in 1942. The book won
for er the prestigious Yale
You er Poet Award. A Yale-
pub ed volume of poetry used
her boo's title and included
some of her verses. The intro
duction to the book was written
by the late poet and hort story
writer, Stephen Vincent Benet.
This volume w a best seller for
16 years.
In 1966, she wrote her prize
winning novel, Jubliee. It has
. been reprinted 43 times and
translated into French, Spanish,
German and Swedish. It has sold
3 million copies in the paper
back edition alone.
Continuing her writing, she
penned Prophets lor a New Day,
in 1970; How I Wrote Jubliee, in
1972; and a critical biography of
Richard Wright, TM Daemonic
Genius 01 Richard Wright, in
1988.
Dr. Alexander received her
undergraduate degree from
orthwe tern University and
her master's and doctoral
,degree from the U Diversity of
I
atWSU
Iowa. She taught at West Vir
ginia State College and
Livingston College early in her
career then joined the faculty of
f
Mississippi State College wher
she taught for more than three. I
decades.
MICHIGAN LEAGUE
OR HUMAN SERVICES will
hold a Public Policy Forum,
"Reducing Deptntkncy in a
Changing Economy" on Wed
nesday, May 18, 12:00 noon to
2:00 p.m. at .the Lansing Civic
Center. .
Featured Speaker: Joe
Stroud, Editor, Detroit Free
Press. Stroud, Will discuss the
major fm<iinp and recommen
dations of the Governor'
Commission on Welfare
Reform.
Idle lid remembered
In Kalamazoo pre entation
A celebration of Black Joplin and Kim Weston of
Entertainment History, The Motown, the original 3 Suers
Black Arts and Cultural Com- Dancers, the Idlewild dancers,
mittee of Kalamazoo will featuring Rikki Ford and Car-
I present "We Remember Id- lean Gill" alongwith the Ballan-
lewild" on Friday M y 13, 1988 tine Belle's Youth chorus line.
at 8:00 p.m. at the State Theater, The show is directed and
404 S. Burdick, in Kalamazoo. choregraphed by Clifford Fears,
Idlewild is one of the oldest and produced. by the gifted
Black summer resorts in the Beatrice Buck .
country, located in the upper
part of Michigan, near Baldwin.
Idlewild has been a h ven for
Blacks who enjoy fun in the sun,
and the best in Black entrtain
ment.
This lavish event Will feature
the Soulful Sounds of Arthur
Prysock, with The Red Prysock
Band. Other featured per- r
formers are: vocalist Betty
Tickets for this fund raising
event are $10 d may be pur
chasdd at all . eve In Music
Outlets; Flipside Records, and
the State Theate Box Office.
For further information call,
The Black Arts and Cultural
Committee at 349-1035.
I Apartheid fl�mlat WSU
I
ficc on Africa.
Sponsor : Cen er for Black
Studie , Center for Peace and
Conflict tudies, Wayne State
University; Michigan Coalition
for Human Rights (MCHR) and
College of Lifelong Learning.
For more information, call
MCHR at 832-4400.
EYEWITNESS TO t\PAR·
THEID featuring the film
Children of Apartheid (with
Walter Cronkite) will be
shown Saturday, May 14 at 7
p.m., General Lectures Hall,
5045 Anthony Wayne Drive,
(NW corner of Anthony Way
Drive & 3rd, Wayne State/
University). $3 donati n.
There are 10,000 children .
under 18 detained by the I I
police and hundreds killed I .. .
since the tate of Emergency S HOE REP A I R
was declared in mid-l986. This
unusual CBS report introduces
us to children, some as young
as ten, who talk of prison,
politics, revolutio , insurrec
tion.
The contrasting portraits of
President P.W. Borha's
daughter, Roxanne, and Nel
son and Winnie Mandela's
daughter, Zinzi, are a highlight
of the SO-minute film, which
was made in 1987.
Lisa Crooms will be special
. guest speaker. I
Recently returned from
South .Africa on a National
Council of Churches tour, Lisa
Crooms is on the staff of the
American Committee of Africa.
I A graduate of Howard Univer
sity (1984), she previously
worked for the Washington Of-·
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