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Ossie Davis watches as Ruby Dee relates one stories recited were centuries old, having Photo by Joe Tori
t of many black folktales which pleased a near- been passed down from generation to genera
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important information source for International on Friday and will attempt The News ran into some distribution
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1 newspaper strike. . The Newspaper Guild has been on cording to Leiby. He said students trying Chief Justice Warren
, The collegiate newspaper published an strike since Tuesday against to place bundles of the newspaper in Burger said yesterday it is
Friday, and distributed Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc., some buildings were chased by police, imperative that Congress
25,000 copies at subway stations and publishers of The Philadelphia Inquirer but added that a member of Temple’s add 132 new judgeships to
other heavy commuter points and The Philadelphia Daily News. Revolutionary Student Brigade, who the federal court system
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prints four-page issues Tuesday through Philadelphia Bulletin, has been hit by a arrested when he tried to stop caseloads that con-
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Temple campus. members since Wednesday, when it The Newspaper Guild has given the helped to create.
News editor Rich Leiby said his paper published an edition bearing the names News its full support, according to Burger told the midyear
has changed its format as well as its of all three papers. The Bulletin has Leiby. meeting of the American
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Davis, Dee retell poetry, fables
Actors trace black literary roots
Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee delighted a
near capacity crowd as they performed
“An Evening in Black” Friday night for
Black History Week.
Davis and Dee, both actors and
writers with numerous stage and screen
credits, became storytellers as they
retold the tales of other black -
storytellers and writers from ancient
times to the present.
“To have black roots, we must begin in
Africa,” Davis said. He and Dee
dramatized African fables many hun
dreds of years old.
These stories, Davis said, have been
told for centuries by certain African
tribesmen, whose occupation it is to
remember them.
The history, language, culture and'
religion is carried with care in the hearts
of these storytellers, Davis said. Alex
Haley, authbr of “Roots,” one of the.
most widely-viewed television programs
in recent years, found one of these
storytellers in an African tribe who had
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been told by storytellers before him
what happened to Haley’s ancestor,
Davis said.
Davis and Dee became many different
characters with many different voices
and dramatized black folktales from the
old South. Stories of the slaves were not
about kings and jungle animals, Davis
said, because the slaves had long since
forgotten about them.
He related one of the many escapades
where Bre’r Rabbit outsmarts the fox.
The rabbit was a hero to the slaves,
Davis said, because, while he was not
the biggest and strongest creature, he
was often the most clever.
Davis and Dee then dramatized recent
literature. They read from some of the
novels, poems, plays, songs and letters
of Lanston Hughes, whom Davis called
“a man for all seasons ... today’s
version of thestdryteller.”
Davis read from one of Hughes songs
of unrequited love.
“I’m gonna lay my head on that
lonesome railroad track,
When that train comes along
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said the two circuits should
be divided into three
divisions each with a
substantial increase in
judgeships. The sth covers
a large area of the South
and the 9th most of the
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He noted Congress
passed the “speedy trial
act” which can sometimes
allow a defendant to go free
if he is not tried in 90 days.
In 1973, Congress created
an Emergency Court of
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three-judge panel to deal
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I’m gonna snatch my head back.”
Paul Lawrence Dunbar, who wrote in
the early 1900’s, Davis said, elevated the
black dialect to the noblest form of
poerty. He dramatized one of. Dunbar’s
poems about a preacher who was brave
enough to tell the slaves they had a right
to freedom and equality.
Dee read from the works of con
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Davis closed “An Evening in Black”
with a scene from the Broadway play
“Purlie Victorious.” Davis wrote the
play and Dee starred in it,
In this scene, a woman is worried
because she has to pretend to some rich
people that she is a college student. The
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“College ain’t so much where you
been,” he says. “It’s how you talk when
you get back.”
Presently Davis and Dee have a radio
program in New York that is devoted to
black and Third World literature.
However, he said Congress
has not provided the ad
ditional judges the acts
require.
“Meanwhile, the
Congress had taken no
action on the obvious need
for 65 additional
judgeships. All this time
the growth of new filings
has continued.”
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