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Black Culture Week

Festival Highlights Music, Literature

By SANDY DIVINE

The third annual Black
Culture Festival sponsored by
the Black Student Alliance
(BSA) and the University
Union will begin tomorrow and
will run until Sat., Feb. 24.

"The Festival will explore
the contributions of black
people in music, literature and
other cultural area." the
sponsors said.

"The highlights of the
Festival will be the seminars,
the African Heritage Dancers
and Drummers, and the
readings by Sonia Sanhe,"
according to third-year
education student Janet
Person, BSA and University
Union Program co-ordinator.

"Finding for the Black
Culture Festival has come from
Student Council funding to the
BSA for speakers, the
University Union and
admission charges," she said

"The New Thing African
Heritage Dancers and
Drummers," resident company
of the Art and Architecture
Center in Washington, D.C.,
will perform in Old Cabell Hall
auditorium at 4 p.m Saturday.
Admission is 1.

Sonia Sanchez, Black
poetess and writer who taught
the first Black Studies Program
in the U.S., will read and
comment on her works in Old

Cabell Hall auditorium at 8
p.m. Sunday. Admission for
this program will also be $1.

Local Day will take place
Tuesday, and will begin at 3:30
p.m. University English Prof.
Houston A. Baker, who will
speak on "Black Culture, White
Judgment." "Muntu"
drama group of black
University students, and
"Black Voices," gospel group
of University black students,
will participate in the program
in Newcomb Hall

Area lawyers, University
Law students and Law School
Graduates will participate in
panel discussions during a two-day
symposium Feb. 21 and
22 on "The Black Lawyer in
Modern Society."

Two panel discussions will
also be given Wednesday on the
"Black Attorney and the
Workers Struggle" at 3:30 p.m.
and on "Prison Reform in the
Black Community" at 7:30
p.m. in Newcomb Hall South
meeting room.

"Desegregation As A Legal
and Education Goal" will be
discussed Thursday Feb. 22 at
3:30 p.m. in Newcomb Hall
Ballroom, and later the same
day at 7:30 p.m. the discussion
will focus upon "Black
Economic Development"