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February 14, 2003 Volume XI, Issue 2
SPRING 2003 EDITION
FSU Celebrates Black History Month
Fayetteville State
University celebrates Black
History Month throughout
February with music, drama,
poetry, art, movies, lectures
and more.
A centerpiece of the
celebration was the drama “A
Long Road To Hoe” by local
playwright Olivia Green.
It was presented
Wednesday, Feb. 12 at 7:30
p.m. in the school’s Butler
Little Theatre.
“It’s a series of vignettes
that depict the black
experience from slavery
through the civil rights
movement,” Green said.
The show uses dramatic
readings, acting, dance and
poetry to get across its
message.
“We try to give a face to
what happened during that
period,” Green said.
The vignettes include a
piece told from the point of
Tarleton Blackwell’s art on display
view of a lynching victim, then
from the perspective of his
wife.
Others look at slavery,
emancipation, the Jim Crow
era, the civil rights struggle
and the black power
movement.
“The audience feels the
full impact,” Green said. “It
brings awareness of that
period.”
Green and her actors have
in Rosenthal Gallery
performed “A Long Road to
Hoe” since 1999. They have
performed at bookstores,
churches, schools and
libraries.
“I’m hoping to inspire
someone to pick up a book,
even if they don’t agree with
what we’re saying,” Green
said. “I want to start a
dialogue.”
Other Black History Month
events include;
The Fayetteville State
University faculty recital was
Tuesday, Feb. 11 at 2 p.m. in
the Rosenthal Choir Room.
North Carolina African
American “Sheroes”
presentation was Thursday,
Feb. 13 at 2 p.m. in the
Rosenthal Choir Room.
Festival of Jazz, Feb. 18-
21 in Rosenthal Choir Room
and Seabrook Auditorium.
For more information 672-
1397.
The Charles Chesnutt
Library film festival featured
the movies of Denzel
Washington, Monday, Feb.
10 through Thursday, Feb.
13. Movies were free and
began at 6 p.m. in the J.C.
Jones Board Room at the
library. Discussions followed
each showing.
The schedule began with
the 1999 biopic “The
Hurricane” featuring
Washington as boxer Rubin
Carter on Monday, Feb. 10.
Tuesday, Feb. 11 the school
showed Spike Lee’s “Mo
Better Blues,” Thursday,
Feb. 13 brought
Washington’s first movie, the
1981 comedy “Carbon
Copy,” and the series closed
with the hospital drama “John
Q.”
“Changing African
American Imagery” panel
discussion, Feb. 23 at 4 p.m.
in Helen T. Chick Building.
For more information call
672-1248.
“Book Talk; Amos ‘n
Andy and Other Stereotypes
in the Media” lecture, Feb.
27 at 12:30 p.m. in the
Continuing Education Library.
For more information call
672-1416.
“The Art of Tarleton
Blackwell,” through Feb. 28,
Rosenthal Gallery. For more
information call 672-1057.
Courtesy of The
Fayetteville Observer
Search Committee Meets
To Discuss New Chancellor
About 60 people have
submitted applications for the
chancellor’s position at
Fayetteville State University,
the chairman of the search
committee said.
The search committee met
in closed session Feb. 4 to
start reviewing the
applications. Members
reviewed about 15 to 20
applications, said Nathan
Garrett, chairman of the
search committee. The
committee is scheduled to
meet again at 5 p.m. Tuesday.
Chancellor Willis McLeod
plans to step down July 1, or
when a replacement is
named.
“We’ve just begun the
process,” Garrett said. “Our
purpose is to decide which of
the 60 we feel strongly
enough about to arrange for
interviews.”
He wants to schedule
interviews for late February
and early March but said that
was tentative. He said he
does not know how many
people the committee will
interview.
Garrett said he could not
say whether any applicants
are from FSU or whether any
worked at other historically
black colleges. He said men
and women have applied for
the position.
The process is being
coordinated by Heidrick &
Struggles, a search firm
based in Atlanta.
Garrett said the
committee will continue to
accept applications until
five finalists are presented
to the board of trustees.
Courtesy of the
Fayetteville Observer
Noted Scholar Pays Visit
To Fayetteville State Univ.
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Staff Report
Na’im Akbar, an African
author and clinical
psychologist at Florida State
University in Tallahassee,
Fla., spoke to many FSU
students, Feb 13. His
appearance was made
possible by the Student
Government Association as
part of their Speakers Guild
Series.
Introduction
He is what they call a
Black Psychologist, an
Afrocentric Scholar, sharing
his thoughts on national issues
with the entu-e population
through books, articles,
lectures, seminars, radio talk
shows and Internet
chatrooms.
His message is clear and
simple, yet provocative and
well grounded: Black
people in America are
“crazy.” Not so much
individually, but culturally.
This scholar, psychologist,
author, business owner, and
lecturer was acclaimed by
Essence Magazine as “one
of the world’s preeminent
psychologists and a pioneer
in the development of an
African-centered approach in
modem psychology.”
His name is Dr. Na’im
Akbar and his ideas have
penetrated most aspects of
progressive thought affecting
the minds of African people
throughout the world. His
insight and his analysis of the
social concerns affecting
Afncan-Americans in
particular and humanity as a
whole is soul stirring,
superbly rational and highly
informative. Actively quoted
and interviewed in print
media, broadcast media and
the Internet; and celebrated
on five continents. Dr. Akbar
is one of the greatest
Thinkers and Orators of our
time.
Background
Dr. Akbar was bom and
received his early education
See Scholar Page 8