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. . . . . . , _ . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '.. I C O b q 1 8 1 6 m - .. . . . . . v ;. ; . . - . - B ' . . . * . ! . . *September, New York -< .-- . .. u . * The Black Academy of ArpJ and 'Letters, founded 16 months - . . ai0 by 50 black o~holats, artists and authors, has announced that three black Americans will be enrolled in the academy's newly established Hall of Fame in September. One of those elccted to tho Hall of Fame is the late W. E.B. DuBois. DuBois, a founder of the NAACP, joined the. CommunisGParty in 1961 a t the age of 93. Before his death a year or so later, he had renounced his American citizenship and had become a citizen of Ghana. Thcrformer Communist Party youth group which waa succeeded 8 months ago by the present Young ' . - Workers Liberation League was named for Dr. DuSois. . . Dr. C. Eric Lincoln, prqsident.'of thc board of the Black Aca- demy, has expressed considerable chagrin a t the denial of a visa for DuBois' widow, Shirley Graham DuBois, who wanted to attenddhe cere- monies. The 71 year old Mrs. DuBois, a citizen of Ghana living in Cairo, attempted to obtain a visa to travel to America earlier this year. Report- edly, the Department of Juktice overruled State Department approval for . the visa. Immigration and Naturalization Service reportedly has advised that Mrs. DuBois wa8 found to belong to some 30 subversive organizations which made her inadmirsible under the law. and. she. djdpot advance suf- ficient reason to waive that inadmisribility. 29 August, W e s t Coast e 11.c /.'s-r. * ' s t t a Y ' 7 ~ A' .;. i: ,:/:$,,,/ .7(' .. A national Chicano moratorium is being planned by radical leftist Mexican-American organizations principally i n the #an Franci'sco Bay area. Additionally, demonstration8 are planned in a number of wcstern cities between now and 29 August. The themes of the planned protest actions a r e the usual--bring the boys home, let the Vietnarnesc employ self-determination, etc. Xnvolved in the various National Moratorium Committees. are a number of organizations that often involve thcmselves . in anti-es tablishment activities. Some of the organizations invdved a y e the Mexican-American Political Aasociation, the United F a r m Workers Organizing Committee, the Young Socialist Alliancc, the Socialist .. Workers Campaign Committee 'and others. r,& .. # * I * 60.. $29-30 August, Ncw Yurk City c Joan Bird, one of thc Ncw York 21 Black Pantlicrs rcccntly frccd on bail who will soon stand'"tria1 for conspiracy to bomb public d a c c s in New York, has anaounced a "People's Tribunal'' to be held in the center . . c ........ , ........ .____ ..... - .. ..