Colia Liddell Lafayette Clark
NAACP, SCLC, 1959-70, Mississippi, Alabama
Current Resid
Colia Liddell Lafayette Clark
NAACP, SCLC, 1959-70, Mississippi, Alabama
Current Residence:
PO Box 273
Glen Olden, PA 19036
Email: shestarts@aol.com
Phone: 267-241-7092
Let me start by saying that these internet sites expect well prepared statements on the spot. This is very much like the fight for basic civil rights in the Southern USA in the 1950's and 60's. Be ye therefore ready because you don't know what the white folk might bring.
Between 1959 and 1970, I spent pretty much full time working on civil rights and human rights causes. The major work being concentrated on the removal of those seemingly ancient symbols of subordination that marked the southern terrain and the struggle for the simple rights to vote.
My career started with NAACP at Tougaloo College and move rapidly to special assistant to Medgar W. Evers, field secretary for the NAACP. I am the founder and first president of the North Jackson NAACP Youth Council which is now infamous for initiating the 1963 mass movement at Jackson under the leadership and guidance of Medgar Evers and our advisor, John Salter. Many other adult leaders of North Jackson were involved in helping to shape the course and program of this small band of students and youth. The North Jackson NAACP Youth Council needs a major biography and a calling together of all the young men and women and the old ones who made this organization the center point of a major struggle for which most of the young people involved have not been given any credit. Anyone interested please call me at 610-532-1817.
In June 1962, I resigned my job with the NAACP and joined with Mississippi SNCC under the leadership of Robert P. Moses. We worked in Jackson, Hattiesburg (Forest County), Sun Flower County, Greeville on projects that were directed towards helping local Mississippians get registered to vote. One has to know that it is near impossible to work in a rural state under the feet of oppression and not work on related issues of the peoples.
In November, 1962, I met and married my first love, Bernard LaFayette, Jr., SNCC Field Secretary. In February, 1963 Bernard and I moved to Selma AL, where he served as director of the SNCC Black Belt Alabama Voter Project and I continued as SNCC field secretary. The project was headquartered at Selma but we had responsibility for developing voter registration and direct action projects in the seven Black Belt Counties. While at Selma, I was appointed by James Forman, executive secretary of SNCC, to assist with the Birmingham, Alabama Movement under the leadership of Dr. Martin L. King. It was in Birmingham that I took one of the worst beatings of my career in the civil rights struggle. Three fire houses assaulted me for what seemed forever on May 8, 1963.
In 1964, I was privileged to be a part of the birth of the Southern Organizing Committee at Nashville, Tennessee where Bernard and I were attending school at Fisk and giving birth to our first son, James Arthur. Nashville was the culminating point for the early years of civil rights in the South. Beyond lie Chicago, New York and national politics. By early 1973, I returned to my home state Mississippi and worked on a number of other projects including the editorship of the Jackson, Mississippi Advocate.
Today I recollect experiences of anti war, racism, Diallo, reparations, workers rights and the battle to end the Africa debt along with that of all of Central and South America. This work has taken me into the international arena where I think the progressive forces and especially the Black forces in the USA must centralize future struggles. These struggles around issues of imperialism, colonization, capitalism, racism, environmentalism, anti-woman, anti-youth, anti-age, anti-human struggles must be internationalized as a part of the struggles of other world groups and issues. It is important that the struggle of the African in the USA be removed from domestic servitude to international leadership-human at last.
I speak all over the place having just returned from Algeria where I participated in a Parliamentary two day conference on the "devastation of Africa its causes and dimensions, why and what can be done about it."
(more)
(less)
Added: 1 week ago
Views: 76
Robert Wussler & Robert Johnson
Robert J. Wussler's instinct for innovation has consist
Robert Wussler & Robert Johnson
Robert J. Wussler's instinct for innovation has consistently transformed television. Throughout his illustrious career, he has wrought groundbreaking advancements in commercial, cable, and satellite television. He is now president and chief executive officer of Ted Turner Documentaries and Ted Turner Pictures.
During his 21 years at CBS, Wussler quickly moved from the mailroom to become the youngest president of the network. As executive producer of CBS News - where he oversaw special projects including election coverage and man landing on the moon - Wussler gained prominence as an industry innovator and leader, from his early use of miniature cameras to his calm control room demeanor as Walter Cronkite' producer. As president of CBS Sports, he essentially invented the genre of pre-game telecasts with "NFL Today," hiring Brent Musburger, Irv Cross, Jimmy the Greek Snyder and Phyllis George.
In 1980 Wussler joined Ted Turner as a co-founder of CNN. Writing of the decade in which they transformed the news and cable business, Turner said, "I couldn't have done it without Wussler." Wussler helped enfranchise Turner Broadcasting as a major power by acquiring high-profile sports and entertainment properties including the NBA, the NFL, the Goodwill Games and exclusive movie packages. For almost 10 years he oversaw the growth of SuperStation TBS as its president and, in 1988, was instrumental in the founding of TNT.
From 1989 to 1992, Wussler was president and CEO of COMSAT Video Enterprises, supervising rapid growth in on-demand videos in hotels. While there, he also managed the acquisition of the Denver Nuggets, serving as managing general partner. Following several international entrepreneurial ventures, including Metromedia's European television distribution businesses, Wussler became president and CEO of ABC Affiliate Enterprises, the new media and marketing arm of more than 100 ABC television affiliates.
In addition to heading Ted Turner Documentaries, Wussler also serves as president and chief executive officer of Ted Turner Pictures, a newly created company that develops theatrical motion pictures and television documentaries on current and historical issues. Ted Turner Pictures released the theatrical motion picture "Gods and Generals" nationwide in late February 2003 through Warner Bros. theatrical distribution. Mr. Wussler has received six national Emmy awards, in addition to the prestigious NATAS Trustees Award, presented in the past to such recognized leaders as David Sarnoff, William S. Paley, and Ted Turner.
Robert L. Johnson is the founder, chairman and CEO of Black Entertainment Television (BET). He is also the majority owner of the the Charlotte Bobcats of the National Basketball Association. Johnson grew up in Illinois and earned a graduate degree in international affairs from Princeton University. In the early 1970s Johnson found himself in Washington, D.C. during the early expansion of cable television. After a few years as a lobbyist for the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, Johnson borrowed money to start his own cable brand, BET. Launched in 1980, it was profitable within five years. In the early '90s BET became the first African-American-controlled company to be traded publicly on the New York Stock Exchange. In 1998 Johnson bought it back and then sold it to Viacom, pocketing a reported $1.5 billion himself and retaining his position as chairman and CEO. Since then Johnson has continued to expand and diversify the BET brand, and in 2003 he became the owner of a new National Basketball Association franchise, the Charlotte Bobcats.
(more)
(less)
Added: 1 week ago
Views: 622
Richie Havens, Kevin Sanders, Richard Savage
RICHIE HAVENS Singer, Songwriter, Performer
Richie Havens, Kevin Sanders, Richard Savage
RICHIE HAVENS Singer, Songwriter, Performer, Artist. Richie Havens is gifted with one of the most recognizable voices in popular music. His fiery, poignant, always soulful, singing style has remained unique and ageless since he first emerged from the Greenwich Village folk scene in the early 1960's. It's a voice that has inspired and electrified audiences from the Woodstock Music & Arts Fair in 1969, to the Clinton Presidential Inauguration in 1993-coming full circle with the 30th Woodstock Anniversary celebration, "A Day In The Garden", in 1999.
Kevin Sanders
Kevin has spent his professional life in international broadcasting and journalism reporting in TV, radio, newspapers and magazines on politics, culture, science and finance. As Fox TV News commentator he presents progressive perspectives on world affairs. As anchor and founding parliamentary bureau chief of the Nine TV Network in Australia, Sanders was described by the country's leading political commentator, Alan Reid as "One of the few journalists who can recognize instantly the true political dynamics of any situation, whether it be a Georgetown cocktail party or an African Kraal."
His hosting of the live CNN coverage of the NASA shuttle missions won the Space Club Press Award, an honor shared over the years by Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite. Sanders' CNN reports on alternative energy sources won the National Engineers' Award for Broadcasting Excellence. A later series of articles he wrote on the subject for Science Digest - including the first report on a new energy producing metal, Nitinol - were translated and republished by Japan Times in their annual selection of the world's best science reports.
His widely republished 1990 article "A Beginner's Guide to the BNL-BCCI Bank Scandal" was chosen by Project Censored as one of the top twenty stories of the year. It was later selected by Utne Reader Magazine as one of the top ten stories of the past ten years. Sanders' cover story for Whole Earth Review, "Age of Transparency" on the political implications of earth observation satellites was later anthologized with essays by William James, John F. Kennedy and Arthur C. Clark in the book, Securing Our Planet. Sanders has also written for The Nation, Futurist, Current, Horizons, Penthouse, Politiks, and newspapers and journals in USA, Europe, Japan and Australia.
As critic and commentator on ABC TV news in New York he often sparked controversy. Martin Scorcese once threatened to sue Sanders for his review of Taxi Driver. (However Scorcese later cast Sanders as the Duke in the film Age of Innocence.) In 1977 Sanders produced and hosted a widely transcribed and republished a discussion on The Year 2000 with Margaret Mead, Herman Khan and William Irwin Thompson. In 1986 Sanders wrote and produced the Peabody nominated Footsteps of Giants, the first documentary for the newly established Fox Network - a one hour 25th anniversary TV special on the first American in space, for which he wrote the US President's introductory speech. The program was highly praised by the New York Times and is available on Pacific Video
In 1996 Sanders was the only journalist to cover the entire proceedings of the World Court hearings in the Hague on the legality of nuclear weapons. He later wrote, produced and hosted the Globalvision documentary on the hearings, The People vs The Bomb shown on PBS in New York and on national TV in Canada and Australia. In 1998 at Cambridge University in Britain he was the only journalist to cover the proceedings of The Planetary Interest conference.
Sanders has become increasingly active in NGO broadcast outreach at the United Nation. In 1997 as Chairman of the Earth Society Foundation, founded by Margaret Mead, Sanders hosted the first ever live webcast from the United Nations of the Earth Day Peace Bell Ceremony. At the ceremony Sanders proposed creating a C-Span of the UN - a continuing project. At the UN in 2003 Sanders produced and hosted a day-long international webcast forum on World Opinion: A New Superpower with a keynote address by Denis Kucinich. Later Sanders hosted a follow-up day-long conference on The Future of the UN at Seton Hall University with a keynote address from Walter Cronkite. The program can be seen online at: www.wfa.org/setonhall/index.html. As UN media representative for the London-based Oneworld Radio network of more than a thousand radio stations, Sanders provides a daily program, World Opinion to review international editorial commentary. The programs can be heard online at: http://radio.oneworld.net/mediamanage/search
(more)
(less)
Added: 1 week ago
Views: 106
|
JOHN ANTHONY GILVEY, a graduate of New York University's Doctoral Program in Educational T
JOHN ANTHONY GILVEY, a graduate of New York University's Doctoral Program in Educational Theatre, also holds degrees from Villanova and De Sales Universities. He is a professor of theater and speech at St. Joseph's College, New York.
As a boy in Philadelphia, it seemed the biggest new hit musicals, like Bye Bye Birdie and Carnival, had one thing in common—they were directed and choreographed by Gower Champion. When a new duplex movie theatre opened in our neighborhood with a re-release of MGM's 1951 Show Boat some 12 years after its debut, the name Champion caught my attention once more as I watched Gower and Marge dance spectacularly. At 15 when my teachers stuck me in the chorus of our high school's production of Bye Bye Birdie, there was Gower's name on the script. Soon Ginger Rogers arrived at the Forrest Theater in the national tour of Hello, Dolly!, and I finally got to see first hand what the prolific Mr. Champion had done to generate all the "Dolly-mania" then sweeping the country. The show was breathtaking; a kaleidoscopic wonder of color and movement as touching as it was dazzling.
How and why did you start working on this book?
Part of the book is from an earlier work, Gower Champion as Director: An Analysis of His Craft in Four Broadway Musicals, 1961-1968, my dissertation for New York University published in 1995. The study covered Champion's productions of Carnival, Hello, Dolly!, I Do! I Do!, and The Happy Time. Research began in 1990 after I realized very little had been written about him and his musicals. This was surprising...
...to me considering that he was the most artistically and commercially successful director-choreographer of the 1960s. After finishing the dissertation and receiving my PhD, I wanted to tell the story of Gower and his musicals. Before the Parade Passes By is the fulfillment of that wish.
What is particularly significant about Before the Parade Passes By?
Until now, no popular biography or critical assessment of Gower Champion's work has been written. What literature there is has been either academic (Gower Champion: Dance and the American Musical Theatre by David Payne-Carter [Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999]) or anthological (Broadway, The Golden Years: Jerome Robbins and the Great Choreographer-Directors, 1940 to the Present by Robert Emmet Long [New York: Continuum, 2001]). In light of this, the significance of Before the Parade Passes By is especially important.
Through the waning days of vaudeville, the post-war era of glittering nightclubs, Hollywood musicals and early television, and finally, the golden age and decline of the Broadway musical, Before the Parade Passes By is a compelling voyage with one of America's greatest showmen and a remarkable study of the craft that streamlined today's musicals. It not only brings to life the story of Gower Champion, but also defines the essence of his craft and his contributions to the musical. Furthermore, the book serves as a window on a particular time in the history of American culture using one artist's life to show how the musical has become what it is today.
What qualifies you to write about Gower Champion and his musicals?
Four Champion musicals—Carnival (1961), Hello, Dolly! (1964), I Do! I Do! (1966), and The Happy Time (1968)—were subjects of the dissertation I composed for my Doctoral Degree in Educational Theatre from New York University. Gower Champion as Director: An Analysis of His Craft in Four Broadway Musicals, 1961-1968 (New York U., 1995. Ann Arbor, UMI 1996, 9701496) is considered to be the definitive work on these shows by many of the performers, songwriters, and designers I interviewed who worked on them.
My research comprises over 50 personal interviews with Gower Champion's family, friends and colleagues (including Marge Champion, Jerry Orbach, and Carol Channing), in-depth study of his director's scripts from the Special Collections Division of the Research Library at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the private collection of Karla Champion, scrapbooks from the private collections of Jeanne Tyler and Marge Champion, and files, film and video about him and his productions found in the Billy Rose Theatre Collection of the Performing Arts Division of the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center. My personal collection also contains over 100 photographs spanning his career.
(more)
(less)
Added: 1 week ago
Views: 87
Robert Mundell Ph,D
Robert A. Mundell
University Professor of Economics
Columbia U
Robert Mundell Ph,D
Robert A. Mundell
University Professor of Economics
Columbia University
E-mail: ram15@columbia.edu
Tel: 39-0577-317068
Fax: 39-0577-317504
For the past twenty five years, Robert Mundell has been Professor of Economics at Columbia University in New York . He studied at the University of British Columbia and the London School of Economics before receiving his Ph.D. from MIT. He taught at Stanford University and the Bologna (Italy) Center of the School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University before joining, in 1961, the staff of the International Monetary Fund. From 1966 to 1971 he was a Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago and Editor of the Journal of Political Economy; he was also summer Professor of International Economics at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1974 he came to Columbia University.
Professor Mundell has lectured widely in North and South America, Europe, Africa, Australia and Asia. He has been an adviser to a number of international agencies and organizations including the United Nations, the IMF, the World Bank, the Government of Canada, several governments in Latin America and Europe, the Federal Reserve Board and the US Treasury. In 1970, he was a consultant to the Monetary Committee of the European Economic Commission, and in 1972-3 a member of the nine consultants to the Commission that prepared a report in Brussels on European monetary integration. He was a member of the Bellagio-Princeton study group on International Monetary Reform from 1964 to 1978 and Chairman of the Santa Colomba Conferences on International Monetary Reform between 1971 and 1987.
The author of numerous works and articles on economic theory of international economics, he is known as the father of the theory of optimum currency areas; he formulated what became a standard international macroeconomics model; he was a pioneer of the theory of the monetary and fiscal policy mix; he reformulated the theory of inflation and interest; he was a co-developer of the monetary approach to the balance of payments; and he was an originator of supply-side economics. He has written extensively on the history of the international monetary system and played a significant role in the founding of the euro. He has also written extensively on the "transition" economies and in 1997 co-founded the Zagreb Journal of Economics.
His books include The International Monetary System: Conflict and Reform (Montreal: Private Planning Association of Canada 1965); Man and Economics (New York: McGraw-Hill 1968); International Economics New York: Macmillan 1968); Monetary Theory: Interest, Inflation and Growth in the World Economy (Pacific Palisades, CA: Goodyear 1971); The New International Monetary System (ed. with J. J. Polak) (1977); Monetary Agenda for the World Economy (ed. with Jack Kemp) (1983); and co-edited books Global Disequilibrium (1990); Debts, Deficits and Economic Performance (1991); and Building the New Europe (ed. with M. Baldassarri) (1992); Inflation and Growth in China (ed. with M. Guitian) (1996); and The Euro as a Stabilizer in the International Monetary System (ed. with A. Clesse) (2000).
Professor Mundell gave the Frank Graham Memorial Lecture at Princeton University in 1965, the Marshall Lectures at Cambridge University in 1974, the Ohlin Lectures in 1998, and the Robbins Memorial Lectures in 2000. In 1983 he received the Jacques Rueff Medal and Prize in the French Senate; in 1997 he became a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association; in 1998, he was made a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Science; and in 1999, he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science. He has received honorary degrees and professorships in several universities in North America, Europe and Asia.
(more)
(less)
Added: 2 weeks ago
Views: 233
Rodney Shakespeare studied at Cambridge (UK) where he obtained a MA in History. Subsequent
Rodney Shakespeare studied at Cambridge (UK) where he obtained a MA in History. Subsequently, he qualified both as a teacher and a barrister (UK lawyer) and worked in education and business. He is co-author of Binary\ Economics - the new paradigm (which is the standard text book on the subject). Binary economics uses state-issued interest-free money to ensure that, over time, on market principles, everybody (including children) eventually comes to own a substantial capital estate producing an independent income.
Rodney, however, has recently co-authored Seven Steps to Justice which provides the intellectual and moral basis of the burgeoning global justice movement. The new thinking is capable of being implemented in Islamic countries, for example, just as easily as in "Western" ones. Go to the new website at www.globaljusticemovement.net where you can find out what is happening and please indicate support by joining as a supporter - it costs nothing!
Rodney is a tutor and binary economist (Binary Economics - the new paradigm, Robert Ashford & Rodney Shakespeare). He lives in London (UK) and, with Canon Peter Challen, is near to completing a new book entitled Seven Steps to Justice, making a global response to the events of 11th September, 2001 and, in particular, the causes of those events. The book also aims to unite all individuals and groups who understand monetary reform. Email: rodney.shakespeare1@btopenworld.com --
Rodney Shakespeare is a UK tutor, binary economist and Visiting Professor at Trisakti University, Jakarta, Indonesia. A Cambridge MA and Barrister of the Middle Temple, he is co-author of three books the new paradigm; and Seven Steps toincluding Binary Economics Justice; and he wrote the Foreword for The Islamic World-System. Rodney Shakespeare has presented major papers at Islamic conferences regarding the connection between the money supply and the real economy. Notable among them were the conferences held at The International Islamic University, Kuala Lumpur (August, 2002); The Trisakti University, Jakarta (January, 2004); and The International Islamic University, Chittagong (December, 2004). Rodney Shakespeare is not a Muslim. However, he believes that because Islam is opposed to riba (interest), it can, and must, find a new, distinctive way forward to give an intellectual, material and moral lead to the rest of the world. Rodney Shakespeare represents the Christian Council for Monetary Justice and the London Global Table.
(more)
(less)
Added: 2 weeks ago
Views: 51
|
