Black Students Will Travel To Yale for Songs and Poetry

More than 130 black Harvard students will converge on Yale for a weekend of socializing and cultural exchange that black leaders here hope will establish lasting ties between minority communities at the two universities.

The Harvard-Radcliffe Afro-American Cultural Center is sponsoring the three-day event, which will include a soul food dinner, a semi-formal cabaret and an Earth, Wind and Fire rock concert, Stephanie Bell '79, organizer of the trip said yesterday.

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"The Cultural Center has been in hibernation for a year or so, so this can be construed as an attempt to firmly establish the existence of the Cultural Center both here and outside the University," Raymond J. McGuire '78, chairman of the center, said yesterday.

The main cultural component of the weekend will take place Sunday when the Yale Black Gospel Choir, Harvard's Kuumba Singers and the Nzinga African Dance Troupe of Yale will perform. A black poetry reading will be part of the event.

Bell said she hopes this will be the first step to increase communications between black organizations at the various Ivy League colleges.