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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)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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