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atcotm X, the oUllt.oding
revolutionary Ie cler cut down
by i bullets nearly 25
years.go in Harlem t Audobon
B II room , ill be a prominent
peer of Black Hi tory Month
isplays oraanized by the
lar,est book store chains in the
United States.
"This reflec the renewed
and gro ing interest in the
ide and example of Malcolm
X." explain Steve Clark,
director of Pathfinder Press,
the rincipal publisher of
Malcolm's works.
Walden booles, Dalton
Booksellers, and The national
As ociation of College Stores
will all have special promo­
tions during the month.
Malcolm X: The Last
Speeche , publi bed in mid-
1989 contains previously un­
publi hed speeches and
intervie ,including two
peeches given by the Black .
Ie der during the last week of
I hi life. Pathfinder reported
Thi explains the mounting
interest in those ideas, e pe­
cially among young people."
Since hi death, Pathfinder,
ha sold more than 500,000
. copies of books nd pamphlets
by and about Malcol m X, and
maintain a current list of ten
uch works.
Ot er title published by
Pathfinder and being featured
during Black History Month in­
clude: Thomas Sankara
Speak: The Burkina Faso
Revolution 1983·87. Maurice
Bi hop Sp aks:
The Grenada Revolution
1979-83. Fighting Racism in
World War II. nd In Defense
of Sociali m by Fidel Castro.
which includes a detailed sum-
mary of the role of Cuban com-
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bat troops in battles with armed
forces of South Africa's racist
apartheid regime.
The e books are al 0 avail­
able at more than 30 Pathfinder I
Bookstores around the U.S.
sale of more than 20,000
copie of the book in the last
half of 1989. The book is now
in its second printing.
"The desire to learn more
about Malcolm X," Clark ex­
plained, "is Cl filling tribute to
what he lived, fought, and died
for. There is no better way to
learn about Malcolm than to
read hi own word ."
Greater publicity about the
availability of Malcolm X'
works during this -year's Black
History Month "appropriately
mark the 25 anniversary of his
assassin lion," Clark said.
"The time that has elapsed
since then, far from diminish­
ing the importance of
Malcolm's political contribu­
tions, have raised it. Malcolm
X's ideas on the fight against
opression, racism, war. and all
forms of exploitation remain
timely and necessary for
anyone who engage. in strug­
gle today.
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.EDUCATIO
By KEITH O. BILTON
Glasnost African American f
Style; Part 1
U.S. - Soviet relations have .
strengthened in recent years. ..- ----- _
Therefore, it i important to at
lea t realize that people of
color are involved and will be
affected on both fronts.
When I presented Dr. Lily
Golden wi,h a revised copy of
her resume, the expression on
her face said it all. She was
unabashedly pleased and went
on to say that the Original copy
she gave me was typed on the
ame typewriter that her father
brought to her native Rusia in
1�31. nearly Sixty years ago.
Her father, Oliver Golden,
and African American, studied
agriculture at Tuskegee In­
. stitute and Alcorn State and led
a delegation' of fellow African
Americans to the Soviet Union.
Golden and his colleagues,
all agricultural experts, igned
a two year contract with the
USSR Ministry of agriculture
to help modernize couon grow­
ing and farming in the nation.
They remained in the USSR,
citing less discrimination than
in the United States.
Today, Golden is still
referred to as a "Black skinned
giant." The Daughter of the
"Oi n.t" is now a leader in her
own right. Lily Golden is a Cul­
tural Anthropologi t and
founder of the African Institute
in Moscow. She is a scholar,
lecturer, historian, tenni
champion and world traveler.
Born in 1934, she received
her Ph.D. from Moscow State
University 'in the Hi tory of
African Music.
It was refreshing to listen to
her talk about the similaritie in
African music throughout the
world; from Moscow to Missis­
Sippi, from Tashkent to
Tri nidad, from Uzbekistan to
Uganda.
She has visited the United
States several times since 1987.
She stated that on her first visit,
she stayed with a white
(European American) family in
a Chicago suburb and didn't
see any African Americaris.
She demanded that they at least
take her to a BI ue cl ub so that
she could hear the music she
had always heard of.
On another recent visit, he
requested to stay with African
American families in order to
talk and touch her U.S. African
brothers and sisters. She has
now developed quite a U.S.
African following. College stu­
dents and study abroad students .
are eager to learn about African
, Soviet life.
The majority of Africans in
the Soviet Union are students
from African countries. Yet
even knowledge of their num­
bers, ;; timated to be 30,000,
are usually lost or unknown to
mo t African Americans. Black
People in Ru sia?
Most people, via televi ion,
view the Soviet Union as being
a "white" country when in 'ract
it i located in Asi . The
majority of its citizen are of
Asian descent.
In Part 2, we will highlight
notes from Dr. Lily Golden's
1966 book, Africans in Russia.
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SWitching drinks
proves na avail
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Switching from whiskey to
wine or brandy to beer is a com­
mon tactic u ed by problem
drinkers, ccording to experts in
t� treatment field.
"Changing from hard liquor to
. I beverage with a smaller per­
centage of alcohol i used to dis­
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coholism" ays Tom Lucking, ex­
ecutive director of Gateway
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"It' not what you donk or
. how much you drin that mat- .
ters," he explains. "What really
counts is how the the alcohol af­
fects the drinker. A persons can
get j ust as drun on wine and beer
as bourbon and brandy."
To illustrate this point, Luck­
ing ays that a single 12-ounce
can of beer or one four-ounce
gJ of wine i equivalent to one-
ad-a-half ounces of whiskey;
The body till reacts to the al­
cohol, no matter how it' con-
umed.
Alcoholi m is progrcs ive
di. casco Luckingexplains. And
the di ca c progrcs cs, the al­
coholic pend time and effort in
an aucmpt to control hi dri,ucing.
Ultim tely it's'the loss of con­
trol. along with increased
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ymptom , arc the pri rri ry
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ing to Lucking.
Call 382·9820 for more infor­
m tion .
Th beauty of
81 C 0 en
While probably best recog­
nized the veteran singer of
the famous recording- group,
'The Fifth Dimension' ,
Lamonte McLemore has also
earned note as a photogr.apher
of beautiful Black women.
Although McLemore's
glamorous image of Black
omen have won him national
acclaim, he now views both his
p ion for his off- tage hobby
and his entertainme career
simply vehicle to express his
creativity.