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The Early Days : Executive Director Gundars Strads remembers the origins of the Before Columbus Foundation
From: Blind Persistence
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In this chapter, Strads traces the Before Columbus Foundation’s origins in late-1970s Berkeley, where literary advocates distributed diverse authors’ works.
Contributors
Gundars Strads
Ishmael Reed has authored fifty works of fiction, poetry, non-fiction, plays and librettos, and edited numerous anthologies. He has received prizes in every category. The fourth novel in his “Terribles” series, The Terrible Fives, is forthcoming from Baraka Books in 2026. Other recent works include Why the Black Hole Sings the Blues (2022), and The Shine Challenge 2025, premiered at NYC’s Theater for the New City on January 30, 2025. Reed is also a cartoonist, songwriter, musician and composer, public media commentator and publisher. Books published by Baraka Books include Bigotry on Broadway (with Carla Blank), The Complete Muhammad Ali, The Terrible Fours, and Why No Confederate Statues in Mexico. He lives in Oakland.
