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| Born | August 18, 1933 Boston, United States |
| Died | August 25, 2013(2013-08-25) (aged 80) New York, United States |
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Calvin L. Hicks (August 18, 1933 – August 25, 2013) was an African-Americanjournalist,activist,editor, andmusic educator. He died in New York.[1]
Born inBoston, United States, Hicks wrote for theBoston Chronicle while still in high school. He graduated fromDrake University. After writing for theBaltimore Afro-American newspaper, he moved toNew York City where in 1960, he founded and chaired theOn Guard Committee for Freedom, a Black nationalist literary organization on the Lower East Side. Its members included Nannie and Walter Bowe,Harold Cruse,Amiri Baraka, Tom Dent,Rosa Guy, Joe Johnson,Archie Shepp, andSarah Wright, among others. The organization viewed the liberation of Africa as part of the struggle for Black liberation in the United States. On Guard went on to publish their own newspaper with Hicks as the editor.
Hicks was executive director of the Monroe Defense Committee in support ofRobert F. Williams, and was active in theFair Play for Cuba Committee. He was one of the founders ofUmbra Magazine, with poet and writerTom Dent. Hicks was also a member of theHarlem Writers Guild, and active in theBlack Arts Movement, where he is considered to have been one of the primary players.[2] As a freelance writer, his articles appeared inFreedomways,New Challenge,New York Age.
He worked as an instructor atBrooklyn College, Richmond College (now known asCollege of Staten Island) andCity College of New York.Beginning in 1969, he taught atBrandeis University, and then atGoddard College,Brown University, and atRoxbury Community College. He was a co-founder of the Black Educators Roundtable in Boston. From 1974 to 1975, he was a graduate fellow at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1984, he graduated fromCambridge College with a master's degree in the philosophy of education. He was a member of the liberal arts faculty and administration at theNew England Conservatory of Music from 1992 to 2008[3] and was also on the faculty of theLongy School of Music.[4][5][6]
The Calvin Hicks Memorial Award for the Study of Music was established in his memory.[7]
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