8 • BENNETT BANNER • FEBRUARY 14, 1997
• BRIEFS & REVIEWS • BRIEFS & REVIEWS • BRIEFS & REVIEWS •
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Oil and Off Campus events, activities, announcements
Complied by
Alesia Barrett, Banner Reporter
and Paquita Herring, Banner Editor
Comantnity dcatt-Up Pmject
Find out how you can improve this community and this
neighborhood by attending Community Project Kick-off Feb.
15, from 11 a.m. -1 p.m. in the Ida Goode gymnasium.
Child care and refreshments will be provided and door prizes
will t)e given. The kick-off is being sponsored by Neighbors
Building Neighborhoods: A New South East. This event is
free.
'Just ms I am" Author to Visit UNC-G
E. Lynn Harris, author of "Just as I am," will speak about his
book, which features a discussion about homosexuality, Feb.
20 at 7 p.m. in Cone Ballroom at UNC-G. The event is free.
Annual Sit-in Banquet Scheduled
The 4th Annual Sit-In Movement Banquet will take place at
the Joseph S. Koury Convention Center Feb. 15, from 7 p.m-
10 p.m. During the banquet the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson will be
there to receive the "Civil and Human Rights Award" for
1997. The banquet is sponsored by the International Civil
Rights Center and Museum Board of Directors.
AKA Seeldng Applicants
Alpha K^pa Alpha Sorority, Inc. is looking for bright,
serious women who are worthy to wear the colors pink and
green. They will meet at 7:08 p.m. in the David Dallas Jones
Union Cafeteria. Applicants need a transcript and a letter of
interest
Scott Keynote Speaker for Career Workshop
Dr. Gloria R. Scott for "Climbing the Ladder to Success" a
career development workshop, for women of color. The
workshop wiU take place, Friday Feb. 21 from 8-4:30, in
Jane S. Me Kimmons Center at North Carolina State
University. For information, call (919) 515-2261.
Women's Heaitb Issues Discussed
The Student Health Center is sponsoring a session featuring
"Women's Health Issues" Feb. 20 from noon-1 p.m. at the
Health Center. Topics include pap smears, birth control and
stress. The guest speaker will be Michele Price. For more
information call Mary Neal-Hunter at 370-8723.
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Blach HERstory
On this day of February..
Compiled By
A'Shauna Tyler
Banner Reporter and Staff
•1,1990 Ida B. Wells,
the first black female
journalist, commemorated on a
U.S. postage stamp.
•3,1956 Autherine Juanita Lucy
(Foster) became the first black
student admitted to the
University of Alabama.
•12,1989 Barbara Harris
became the first female
Bow Dow' is best
Ice Cube project in years
RITICS
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Ice Cube, WC and Mack 10
are stirring up a hornet's nesL.
and they really don’t care if they
get stung. Their collective effort
as the Westside Connection,
Bow Down, assumes the position
of spokesmen for the entire
gangsta rap genre that has been
dissed or slighted by NY
publications and rappers.
To even the score — not
remedy the situation— trio has
set out to record the ultimate G-
rap collaboration for those who
thought the music was a
recurring nightmare for hip-hop.
Quite simply. Bow Down is
the best Ice Cube related project
in years —10 tracks and three
skits of well executed and tightly
produced songs. The Gangsta,
The Killa, and The Dope Dealer,
with its old western Trent Reznor
rock melody, delves into the
occupational hazards among
the three types of gangsta
rappers.
On the ill tip, the trio goes
ballistic on All the Critics In
NY, Cross em Out & Put a K,
and King of the Hill—
spewing venom at NY
magazines critics. Cypress
Hill, Q-Tip, and every rapper
that has dissed gangsta rap.
All three Westside
Connection MCs put their all
into this project, as evidenced
by their delivery: extreme
bravado and reinvigoration of
subject content. But while Cube
and WC vent their anger and
frustration at the agents of their
discontent, the fact that they are
still champions of hip-hops
social awareness movement
seems to have escaped the two.
This album contains no
attacks on government officials
or police chiefs, no addressing of
CANTLE programs with the
gangs in their backyard, no
referencing of historical facts
and no sense of purpose (except
for the obliteration of NY). But
while the album is one of the
year's best, and Cube, WIC and
Mack 10 are bringing it on all
lyrical and musical fronts, the
tone and spirit seem a bit trite
after Tupacs murder. By Allen S.
Gordon of Priority Records.
The Critic's Corner accepts reviews, previews and criticisms of music, booi(s, poetry,
plays and movies that are 150 words or less. Articles must not have been published
elsewhere. Once submitted, an article becomes the property of the Bennett Banner
and may be edited.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Career Center
Looking for Work?
Want to gain NEW
EXPERIENCES?
DONT DELAY?
Visit the Career Center today!
Anglican bishop in the world.
•14,1920 Mamie Smith
was the first black woman to
make a record. Her hits include
“You Can’t Keep A Good Man
Down” and “This Thing Called
Love.”
•21,1946 Mary McLeod Bethune,
became the first African-
American to receive an honorary
degree from a white college in
the South. She received her
degree from Rollins College, in
Winter Park, Fla.
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