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Subject: HRC Press Release 3/22/02
For Immediate Release:
A Forum on Racial Harmony:
Three Humanitarian Giants
of the Twentieth Century
Thursday, April 4, 2002
from 7 to 9 PM
Public Hearing Room
Memorial Building
150 Concord Street
Framingham
You are invited to participate in a public forum with
A. H. Lawrence, Biographer of
Duke Ellington
Arleigh Prelow, filmmaker/producer, on
Howard Thurman
Hazel Rowley, Biographer of
Richard Wright
These speakers examine the lives and works
of three great pathfinders in the search for
social and racial justice.
(Setting the mood will be Elden Sully, guitarist,
with Ellington�s music from the early 1900�s)
For information: Karen Baratta,
Department of Community and Human Relations,
508-620-4850, (508-620-4851 TTY)
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Sponsored by:
Borders Books; Harmony Grove Research Center for the African Diaspora;
and the Human Relations Commission of the Town of Framingham
News from
The Human Relations Commission
of the Town of Framingham
Date: March 22, 2002 Contact: Karen Baratta Telephone:
508-620-4850
For Immediate Release E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FORUM TO SPOTLIGHT LIVES AND WORKS OF DUKE ELLINGTON, HOWARD THURMAN, RICHARD
WRIGHT�GIANTS OF RACIAL HARMONY
A Public Forum in the series "Drawing Together," co-sponsored by the Human
Relations Commission of the Town of Framingham , Harmony Grove Research
Center for the African Diaspora, Inc. and Borders Bookstore, will be held on
Thursday evening, April 4, 2002 from 7 to 9 PM in the Public Hearing Room,
Lower Nevins Hall, Memorial Building, 150 Concord Street, Framingham,
Massachusetts. Three local author/biographers will describe their famous
subjects in a presentation entitled:
RACIAL HARMONY:
THREE HUMANITARIAN GIANTS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY!
Ms. Arleigh Prelow, distinguished documentary filmmaker/producer, will
discuss her work-in-progress, "Howard Thurman: In Search of Common Ground"
and show a brief preview of the film depicting Thurman�s life and work.
Poet, mystic, philosopher, theologian, Howard Thurman was the author of more
than twenty books. He died in 1981 but his influence is still felt in his
inspirational works on religion and racial mediation.
A. H. Lawrence is the author of "Duke Ellington and His World" (Routledge
2001, $35.00). "Of all the books on Duke Ellington, including the few that
greatly illuminated his life and music, there is now the definitive biography
of Duke that includes a musician�s analysis of his entire musical
development." ( Nat Hentoff, jazz critic and author.) Mr. Lawrence describes
how this great composer, the grandson of slaves, became a spokesman for his
people and his music in the more than 3000 jazz works he created in his
lifetime.
Hazel Rowley�s "Richard Wright: The Life and Times" (Henry Holt 2001,
$35.00), reviewed on the cover of the New York Times Book Review (August 2001
) is widely acclaimed. "�well written, prodigiously researched, and nicely
paced, a compelling evocation of the man, his craft and the different worlds
through which he moved�" (Wall St. Journal) Ms. Rowley, now affiliated with
the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for Afro American Studies at Harvard, will
probe the difficult reaches of Wright�s stormy career.
In a musical interlude Elden Sully, a jazz musician, will set the period and
time in which Thurman, Ellington, and Wright lived. Questions from the
audience will follow the presentations. Books will be available for signing
by Mr. Lawrence and Ms. Rowley.
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