By Arthur Bridgeforth Jr.

Wayne State's Africana studies department is sponsoring a three-day film fest from April 4-6. Six documentary films will be shown throughout that weekend at three locations. "Comrade Sister" will be shown from 5-7:30 p.m. and "At the River I Stand" from 7:30-9:30 p.m. on Friday, April 4 at Wayne State's DeRoy Auditorium on Cass Avenue across from the Detroit Public Library's main branch.

"Strange Fruit" will be shown from 9-11 a.m., "Salt of the Earth" from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. and "Finally Got the News" from 2-5 p.m. on Saturday, April 5 at Wayne State's Adamany Undergraduate Library on Gullen Mall near Second Avenue.

"Emmett Till" will be shown from 3-5 p.m. on Sunday, April 6 at Plymouth United Church of Christ on 600 E. Warren Avenue, one block west of I-75. Discussions will accompany all films.
Tickets for the film festival are $5 per film; $20 pass for the general public and a $10 pass for students and seniors to all the films.

The film festival is also being sponsored by the National Lawyer's Guild and The National Conference of Black Lawyers; The Detroit Public Library, African Women Economic Consortium (AWEC) and Operation Get Down.

In addition to the film fest, a charity dinner benefiting PROVE (Post Release Opportunities for Vocational Education) and HOPE (Helping Our Prisoners Elevate) and the National Lawyers Guild will be held Saturday, April 5 at 6 p.m., at the Plymouth Unitarian Church of Christ at 600 E. Warren Avenue and Beaubien in Detroit. The dinner is featuring legendary poet and activist Amiri Baraka as the keynote speaker and the topic is: "Arts and Activism: Using the Arts to Agitate for Change." The cost for the dinner and open mic jazz and poetry afterglow is $35; $10 for the afterglow only. In addition, guests are being asked to donate at least two books to the Prisoner Literacy Campaign.

The dinner is also sponsored by Africana studies, along with Wayne State's Walter P. Reuther Labor Research Library and the College of Urban Labor and Metropolitan Affairs. Other sponsors include: National Lawyer's Guild, Detroit Chapter; National Conference of Black Lawyers; American Civil Liberties Union of Detroit; Operation Get Down, African Women's Economic Consortium; Groundwork for a Just World and the Detroit Association of Black Organizations