Author Archives: Richard Guzman

Frank London Brown: Can White Folks Get It?

So well-received was Frank London Brown’s first novel Trumbull Park (1959), that critic Sterling Stuckey wrote: “…along with Lorraine Hansberry’s Raisin in the Sun and Ossie Davis’ Purlie Victorious, [it] signaled the advent of a new and brilliant flowering of … Continue reading

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2015 Fall Festival of Independent Film

  AND   Join us for the 2015 Fall Festival of Independent Film.  For the fifth straight year North Central College is one of the venues for the Naperville Independent Film Festival (NIFF), now in it’s 8th year. Celluloid, the … Continue reading

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Grief and Social Change

In his essay “The Servant as Leader”—a piece which launched the entire field of Servant Leadership studies—Robert Greenleaf tells of a two-day, off-the-record seminar attended by twelve ministers and theologians, and twelve psychiatrists of all faiths.  The theme: healing. The … Continue reading

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