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Thursday, March 2, 1995
Black Histor
"First annual Kuumba Night"
by Joneatra D. Henry
Collegian Staff
Penn State Behrend presented
its first annual Kuumba night
on the last day of Black History
Month, February 28. Kuumba
was sponsored by Residence
Life, with the coordinator of the
program, Israel Jenkins.
During Kuumba night, Behrend
students recited poetry and the
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principles of Ngozo Saba.
Audience members accompanied
the readings with drum beats.
Ngozo Saba has seven
principles: Imani (Faith); Umosa
(unity); Kujichaguba (Self-
Determination); Ujamaa
(Cooperative Learning); Kuumba
(Creativity); Ujima (Collective
Work and Responsibility); and
Nia ( Purpose).
Uncle Sam
Fm your niece
like any other;
the only difference is
my skin has color.
I sailed the water
against my will;
you took my culture
and hid my history.
I may wear the mask
not for long though;
a new agenda's due
to enable me to rise.
--Joneatra Henry
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Foluso Oguntoyinbo recited a
poem in the language Yoruba
entitled "Make Haste While the
Sun Shines." Oguntoyinbo
remembered reciting the poem as
a child in school in Nigeria.
Kuumba night was introduced
with a libation statement.
Excerpts from the statement are
as follows:
"Our fathers and mothers came
here, lived, loved, struggled, and
built here. On this same soil,
we will sow our seeds and build
and move in unity and strength.
For the new world we
struggled to build and for the
continuing struggle through
which we will inevitably rescue
and reconstruct our history and
humanity in our own image and
according to our own needs."
Guest speaker, Professor
Reggie Newton from Duquesne
University, spoke on the
importance of the expansion of
the black self. According to
Newton black communities are
in need of transformation. Blacks
have to transform the physical
and mental environment of the
black community.
He stated, "If the mental
environment is not positive then
the physical environment will
not be positive."
He also spoke of a nation
building process. Blacks have to
join organizations that in turn
evolve into institutions, which
constitute a nation.
Self-knowledge has to expand
if we want to overcome
negativity.
Kuumba night is one way to
help students expand thru
knowledge of the neglected
African heritage.
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Former
ambassador
to speak at
Behrend
America's global agenda
ERIE--Jeane J. Kirkpatrick,
former U.S. ambassador to the
United Nations, will examine
America's global agenda when
she speaks at Penn State Erie,
The Behrend College, on
Thursday, March 16, as part of
the college's annual Speaker
Series.
Kirkpatrick's lecture, "A World
Overview," will begin at 7:30
p.m. in Erie Hall. General
Admission is $3; tickets will be
sold at the door beginning at 6:30
p.m. Penn State-Behrend
students, faculty, and staff will be
admitted free with College
identification.
The award-winning Speaker
Series at Penn State-Behrend is
partially funded by John Nesbit
Rees and Sarah Henne Rees
Charitable Foundation, and by
First National Bank of
Pennsylvania. It is sponsored by
the Penn State-Behrend Office of
Student Affairs.
In her four years as the U.S.
representative to the United
Nations, Kirkpatrick was an
outspoken advocate of democracy
and the protection of the global
interests of the U.S. and its
allies. For her efforts, she was
awarded the Medal of Freedom--
the nation's highest civilian
honor--by President Ronal
Reagan in 1985. She was also
awarded the French Prize
Politique for political courage,
the Veterans of Foreign Wars'
Gold Medal, the American
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Council on Foreign Policy's
Morgenthau Award, and the
Humanitarian Award of the B'nai
B'rith.
Since leaving her United
Nations post, Kirkpatrick
resumed her position as Leavy
Professor at Georgetown
University and as Senior Fellow
at the American Enterprise
Institute. She is currently
writing a book on the U.S. role
in the United Nations and a
syndicated column, and lectures
extensively at home and abroad.
J. Kirkpatrick
will speak in
Erie Hall
March 16. The
former UN
ambassador
will address the
global agenda.
Kirkpatrick's recent books
include "Legitimacy and Force:
National and International
Dimensions", "The Reagan
Phenomenon", "Dismantling the
Parties: Reflections on Party
Reform and Party
Decomposition", "The New
Presidential Elite", and "Political
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