Readers’ Views, May-June 2011

June 8, 2011

From the new issue of NEWS & LETTERS, May-June 2011:

Readers’ Views

Contents:

  • A CALL FROM SOUTH AFRICA
  • STUDENTS WIN AT USF
  • THREE HISTORIC ANNIVERSARIES
  • JUSTICE FOR JOHNATHAN CUEVAS
  • FROM YEMEN TO THE U.S., MANY VOICES OF WOMEN’S LIBERATION
  • DETROIT SYMPHONY VICTORY
  • FOR JOHN ALAN (ALLEN WILLIS)

A CALL FROM SOUTH AFRICA

A call by Abahlali baseMjondolo for Madikizela to step down as MEC [Member [=>]

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Voices from the Inside Out: Remembering John Alan

May 18, 2011

by Robert Taliaferro

John’s writings are strikingly poignant and timeless, with a prosody that is uniquely old-school. The body of his work is eloquently instructive and historically prescient.

In reading his columns we are challenged to look upon his words as more than philosophical constructs; there is a timelessness that reminds us that history–if left to its [=>]

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In Memoriam: John Alan/Allen Willis

March 19, 2011

Allen Willis/John Alan–who would have been 95 on June 10 this year–died quietly on Feb. 23 in Oakland, California. The near-century of his life was filled with thoughts and experiences of Black life in America. One of his earliest recollections was as a three-year-old witnessing the 1919 race riots, seeing Black men being attacked and [=>]

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March-April 2011 issue of News & Letters available on the web

March 17, 2011

New issue of News & Letters is now available on the web:

News & Letters, Vol. 56, No. 2
March – April 2011

Lead
Revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya shake world order

The revolutionary movement that began in Tunisia in December, when 26-year-old street vendor Mohammed Bouazizi burned himself to death in protest at the confiscation of his unlicensed [=>]

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