The Black Scholar a Black Studies program, the first in the United States, and to write a proposal for a department of Black studies, which Black students wanted to have as a fully independent department. As a consequence of a five-month student-faculty strike, the first and the longest strike for Black studies in the US academy, Hare, who was arrested twice for activities during the strike, was fired and Chrisman was removed as a professor from tenure track. The strike experience motivated Chrisman and Hare to create a venue outside of the academy for Black knowledge production. In November 1969, Hare (publisher), Chrisman
The Pool of the Black One been published in the collections "The Conan Chronicles Volume 1: The People of the Black Circle" (2000) and "" (Del Rey, 2003). "The Pool of the Black One", which appeared in "Weird Tales" magazine a month after "The Slithering Shadow", is a pirate-themed adventure story and occurs in the Western Sea of the Hyborian Age. The story begins with Conan adrift at sea, after escaping from a council of pirates in the Barachan Isles. He climbs aboard "The Wastrel", a ship belonging to a different pirate order who are bitter rivals of the Barachan ones. After a tense conversation with