The Folkbase: Song, Sermon and Spoken Word
4th Annual National Conference of Afro-American Writers
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Keynote Speaker: Nathan Hare
Date: May 4-6, 1978
Panels
The Folkbase
Al-Tony Gilmore, Wyatt T Walker (Sterling Stuckey, moderator)
The Image of Black Folk in our Literature: A New Identity
Jerry Ward, Julian Mayfield (Eugenia Collier, moderator)
Ideology and Aesthetics
Joe Gonclaves, Ron Karenga, Eugene Redmond, Askia Toure (John Henrik Clarke, moderator)
New Black Consciousness: The Demands of Craft
A.B. Spellman, Barbara Ann Teer, Clayton Riley (Larry Neal, moderator)
Publishing Houses and Bookstores: Publications; and Cultural Organizations
Ethelbert Miller, John O. Killens, Charles Harris (Haki Madhubuti, moderator)
Poetry Reading
June Jordan and Eugene Redmond
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Multinationalism Reconsidered: New Criticism; the SouthThe Overlooked Terrain (Clyde Taylor, Moderator) Quincy Troupe, Jennifer Jordan, and Charles Rowell
Black Women Writers and Feminism
Barbara Smith, Acklyn Lynch, Sonia Sanchez (June Jordan, Moderator)