When both the younger scholar, Professor Koritha Mitchell, and senior scholar and past president of the MLA, Professor Houston Baker, Jr., spoke, the demonstrators heard pleas for an end to self-censorship and were reminded of the activist legacy of the MLA.
There was a more sanguine response to abolition at the MLA.
Quangos (the UK Film Council, the MLA) are being wound up.
Arts Council England will have £3m to look after libraries compared with the £13m that the MLA had.
The 2016 Australia Day commercial forms part of the MLA campaign to ensure "you never lamb alone".
The group marketing manager for the MLA, Andrew Howie, said it was natural for a brand or produce to have a competitor.
Although there has been a generational shift in politics, said John McAllister, the MLA for South Down, the new first minister and her deputy face some old problems.
In a joint statement with the MLA chairman, the former poet laureate Sir Andrew Motion, they pledged to work for "a smooth and orderly transition".
If you use the "MLA Style Manual," he will use Turabian; if it is Turabian you have relied on, he will turn out to be a lifelong Chicagoan.
And no further discussions regarding the MLA are given.
Another participant fractured the buccal attachment on the MLA, but this was repaired during elastic loading.
