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Henry ~ThJ.mas; " Currentfry Redmond is professor of English and poet-inresidence at California State University, Sacramento) {and is one of
the c o rdinators of the Annual Third World Writers and Thinkers Symposium
held on that campus. He is in demand as a speaker, lecturer, reader,
and consultant to various •IDrkshops, symposia, and conferences, having
appeared before audiences at UCLA, UC Berkeley, in~Harlem, in Watts,
Howard University, Southern University, and many more.

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In Memoriam: Georgia Douglas Johnson, Melvin Tolson, Langston Hughes,

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