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Fame is the late W. E. B. DuBois. joined ths.Communist P a r t y in 1961 at the age of 93. Before his death a-year or so later, he had renoanccd his American citizenship and had become a citizen of Ghana- The fermer Communist P a r t y youth group which was succeeded 8 months ago by the present Young Workers Lib-- eration League was named for Dr. DuBois. DuBois, o foundcr of the NAACP, - .. Dr. C. Eric Lincoln, president of the board of the Black Aca- demy, has expressed considerable chagrin at the denial of a visa f.or DuBois' widow, Shirley Graham DuBois; who wanted to attend the cere- Cairo, attempted to obtain a visa to travel to America earlier this year. Reportedly, the Department of Justice overruled State Department approval for the visa. Immigration and Naturalization Service reportedly has advised that Mrs. DuBois was found to belong to some 30 subversive organizations which made h e r inadmissible unclcr the law and she did not advance sufficient eason t,o yaive that inadmiss ibility. 3-7 September, Atlanta, Georgia # - monies. The 71 y e a r old Mrs. DuBois, a citizen of Ghana living in 1 . 1 t- *' /n k*,y FA..;: e", . L.44 1".J The Congress of African People will m e e t to develop institutions to bring about tho liberation of black people. Thhusands o f pcrsons a r c expected to attend from North America, Latin America, Africa and the Caribbean. held annually since 1966. persons attended. m e m b e r of'Harvard University's dcpartment of Afro-American studies and is also chairman of the Black Affairs Council, .One of the'partici- pants will be LeRoi Jones, radical poet and playwright. a prepared statement for a recent press confcrence, h a s established the following congrcss goals: 1) to provide an idcoloRica1 framcwork for tlrc black power movement; 2) to develop plans to build black institutions at local, national and international levels; 3) to ctcate structures to impte- mcnt mandates; 4) to exchange information: and 5) to provide an oppor- tunity for African peoples' fellowships. Thc congress is a n expansion of M a c & powcr ionlerences L a s t year at Bermuda scvcral thousand black Haywood Henry, chairman of thc congress, is a Mr. Henry, in i c : . ;,e! ' / . ),fi -T e . *5-7 Scptembcr, Philadelphia, Pcnqsylvania hppraximatcly 1 SO pt:ople, including 45 liippic-typc white youths, attended a Washington planning session for the BPP-sponsorcd Rcvolu- ticrnary Pcoplc's Cnnstitutional Convcntion to be hvld a1 PhiimI~*Ipliia. The Washington meeting took place at the law school building ofrtfoward University and waS attenaed by Black Panther chief of staff David Hilliard, * :f>.. e . , . ,, , . .-. . .I" : - I , ,, ,: , I , . / , . . .I . / t '