4* BENNETT BANNER • OCTOBER 27, 1995
BRIEFS & REVIEWS
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Compiled by Yvette Burton
Banner Co-Editor
Are You Artistically Gifted?
Do you have special artistic talents that you want to show
off7 The AJJPA Foundation is now taking applications for
the categories of acting and writing. Students applying must
be a junior or a senior at a historically black institution, have
an overall grade point average of 2.8 or higher and supply a
copy of their academic transcripts. The deadline is Dec. 5.
Additional information is available in Shell C on the bulletin
board. Inquiries should be forwarded to: AJJPA Foundation,
11684 Ventura Blvd., Suite 467, Studio City, Calif. 91604.
An Intellectual Faculty
Did you know that 75 percent of Bennett’s full-time
instructional faculty holds doctorates? The Division of
Sciences holds the most with 100 percent in Biology,
ChemisU7 and Mathematics/Computer Science. The faculty
in the Visual Arts/Humane Studies Department also holds a
100 percent doctoral rate.
$$$ For Graduate School
The National Science Foundation has fellowships
available to minorities applicants who are U.S. citizens or
permanent resident aliens of the U.S., and college seniors..
Fellowships are awarded for study and research leading to
master’s or doctoral degrees in mathematical, physical,
biological and social sciences. The deadline is Nov. 6. For
more information write:NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Program, Oak Ridge Associated Universities P.O. Box 3010
Oak Ridge, Tenn. 37831 or call (423) 241-4300.
Community Health Fair
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. will host a free commu
nity health fair in partnership with the American Red Cross
Nov. 4 from 11 a.m.- 3 p.m. at Carolina Circle Mall (food
V^court area). Admission is free. ^
Black
HERstory
Compiled bv
Amanda Pecchioni
Banner Reporter
Oct. 27-1927 Ruby Dee, actress,
is bom.
Nov. 1-1787 The first free school
for African American is opened in
New York.
2- 1SK>3 St. Luke Penny Savings
Bank opened by Maggie Lena
Walker.
3-1905 Lois Mailou Jones, artist,
is bom.
5- 1968 Shirley Chisholm is the
first African Amerian woman
elected to Congress...“Women
don’t get hung up, making deals
the way men do. You cannot fight
by being on the outside complain-
Critic's Comer
A new kind of horror film
coming soon to a ’hood near you
(NAPS)—Move over, Freddy
Kruger. A new kind of horror film
is coming to video.
Acclaimed as “one of the best
horror films of the decade,” Tales
From The Hood unites the tradi
tional elements of terror with Spike
Lee’s innovative approach to film-
making.
“I think what sets this film apart
is that, for the most part, most
horror flicks have not really dealt
with the African-American expe
rience or somehow related it to the
story,” said Lee, executive pro
ducer of Tales From The Hood.
“That’s not to say that’s what this
film specifically deals with, but
we had that slant. It is told from
that standpoint, and we really
haven’t seen that before.”
Featuring an all-star ensemble cast
including Corbin Bemsen (Major
League), David Alan Grier
(Blankman/Boomerang) and
Clarence Williams III (Sugar Hill/
Against the Wall), the film has
V3d y Dxjevie
I
generated $12 million at the box
office.
“For any horror film to be success
ful, you have to satisfy your hard
core horror fans,”Lee said. “They
need suspense, they need to be
surprised, they need their gore
...Tales From The Hood deliv
ers.”
In Tales From The Hood, morti
cian Mr. Simms Williams III)
weaves four sinister and shocking
stories into a single deadly epi
taph.
“Mr. Simms is really the story
teller of the piece—he goes from
room to room and corpse to
corpse,” said Rusty Cundeiff, who
wrote, directed and acted in the
film. “And as we discover the
story behind the corpses, that’s
what takes us into the tales and
takes us into the various social
messasges. He is kind of the con
science of the piece.”
So, sharpen your nails, Freddy
Kruger, because Mr. Simms is the
new scary guy on the block—bring
ing a horror film unlike any other
to ’hoods across America. Tales
From The Hood, available from
HBO Home Video, can be found
in video rental stores this fall—
just in time for Halloween.
In the mind's eye of AZ
ing and whining. You have to get
on the inside to be able to assess
their strengths and weaknesses
and then move in. ”
6- 1SK)0 "Lifi Every Voice and
Sing" the “Negro” National
anthem is composed by James
Weldon Johnson andj.
Rosamond Johnson... “Facing
the rising sun of our new day
begun. Let us march on till
victory is won. ”
7- 1919 (Election Day) Ellen
Stewart, artistic director of "La
Mama ” is bom.
1955 Segregation in recreational
facilities is oudawedby theUnited
States Supreme Court.
8-1898 Whites riot against Afri
can Americans in Phoenix.
1938 CrystalB.Faucet becomes
the first African American woman
elected to the Pennsylvania state
Source of Quotations:"Black Pearls,"
compiled l^ Daphne DuvalHarrison.
Keita N. White
Banner Reporter
Visualizer 1. A person who
visualizes. 2. A person whose
mental imagery is prevailingly
visual.
AZ the Visualiza, whose re
cently released debut album “Doe
or Die” has been one of the most
anticipated hip-hop albums all
year, is definitely one of the most
graphic artists out today.
He can tell a story and make you
feel like you’ re there, caught up in
the action.
AZ first stepped into the hip-
hop sptit light with a guest appear
ance on Nas’s single “Life’s a
B—ch.” This song turned out to
be an underground street anthem
gaining AZ an enormous amount
of respect in the hip-hop commu
nity.
Tracks done by producers Pete
Rock, DJ L.E.S. and Chucky Tho
mas guarantee to have heads ring
ing across the country. It’s un
usual for a rapper to rock both the
East and West Coast with one di
verse album, but “Doe or Die”
definitely has Platinum possibili
ties. With tracks like “Suga Hill,”
\usic Inieview
that discuss a young man’s dreams
of obtaining wealth and riches
without being in the drug game,
and “Your World Don’t Stop” that
discusses life in prison and dreams
so big that no obstacle in the world
could stop them, this Brooklyn
native has distinguished himself
as a credible rapper and not one of
these “wanna be thugs” perpetrat
ing as MC’s.
The one track on this album that
caught my attention from the be
ginning was “We C^’t Win,” a
song about how hard it is for a
Black man in today’s white soci
ety.
AZ’s album is apnme example
of what happens when society fails
our youth and then allows them to
talk about it. Other rappers such
as Snoop Doggy Dog, Tupac
Shacur, Biggie Smalls and KRS
One have also been instrumental
in letting the world know what is
going on in Urban America, but
none have expressed their dreams
of making it out of the ghetto with
such determination and persever
ance. This album is unquestion
ably enjoyable from A to Z.
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