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Sekou Sundiata (1948-2007), born Robert Franklin Feaster, was a well known poet and writer. When he developed a love of poetry as a teenager, he changed his name, drawing influence from Sekou Toure, Ghana’s most famous president, and Sundiata from Sundiata Keita, king of Mali-Baraka. Many of Sundiata’s works were influenced by his upbringing in […]
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" In June 2004 Sekou Sundiata addressed a national gathering in Pittsburgh, “Diversity Revisited/A Conversation on Diversity in the Arts.” Sundiata’s speech, “Thinking Out Loud: Democracy, Imagination, and Peeps of Color,” makes explicit the fact that he shared the meeting’s general impatience with the status quo on multiculturalism and that this impatience propelled his turn to the conjoined forces of democracy and imagination. "
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Sidney Offit was apart of the New School’s Writing Department in the 1960s. You can read more about him here. If you’d like to write a more in-depth profile of Sidney Offit, email us at [email protected]. We welcome contributions.
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" Buckley Offit, the author's father, was once described as "the biggest bookmakers in Maryland, maybe the entire United States of America". One of his son's first memories is of Buckley fighting off a kidnap attempt; later he remembers his father buying his way out of a gambling rap. "
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Arien Mack has been a professor of psychology at the New School for Social Research since 1970, and still teaches today in the Adult Bachelor’s division. You can read more about her here. If you’d like to write a more in-depth profile of Arien Mack, email us at [email protected]. We welcome contributions.
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" The central and most imponderable mystery of most men's lives is this: Who is my father? The second part of the equation is: And does he love me? Many of my own male friends have spent a lifetime trying to figure out just who that stranger is or was. "
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" It is... extremely important to recognize that for considerably complicated reasons, many adults either don't want to become involved in any friendship-relationships at all with their neighbors, or, if they do succumb to the need of some form of society, they strictly limit themselves to one or two friends, and no more. "
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" The Italian nation rose, as did all the others in Europe, about the close of the Middle Ages; but its birth was different. Italy was not the creation of kings and warriors; she was the creature of a poet, Dante. "
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Stanley Diamond was an anthropologist and poet who founded The New School’s graduate anthropology program in 1970. The program soon developed into a full department, of which he served as its chairman until 1983 when he was made Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Humanities and University Poet. [1] Born in 1922 to a progressive and […]