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Volume39,Number2? WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.?^^JHjyfK^AY^arch 14, 2013
Photo* by Layla Harms
Chester Davis breaks it down during the
press conference Monday.
Theatre
Festival
season
kicked off
BY LAYLA GARMS
THE CHRONICLE
Tony Award winner Tonya Pinkins and
NAACP Image Award winner Dorien
Wilson have been tapped to serve as celebri
ty co-chairs at this year's National Black
Theatre Festival.
Officials from the North Carolina Black
Repertory Company, which stages the bien
nial festival, joined forces with city leaders
and communi
ty supporters
for the public
announcement
Tuesday,
which served
as the kick-off
for the 2013
NBTF season.
"All roads
lead to
Winston
Salem, North
Carolina on
July 29-Aug.
3," proclaimed
Sylvia
Celebrity Co-Chairs f ,Pr'~
Tonya Pinkins and "amlm, presi
Porien Wilson. dent of the
NCBRC Board
Of Directors and the widow of the company
and festival's founder. Larry Leon Hamlin.
The stage has been set, and I'd like to per
sonally invite everyone to join us. We are
saving a seat for you on Black Theatre Holy
Ground."
Pinkins has graced the small screen on
numerous occasions, including roles on "All
My Children." "24" and "As the World
Turns," and appeared in such cinematic hits
as "Enchanted" and "Above the Rim." Her
Broadway credits include performances in
"Jelly's Last Jam" and "Play On!" Despite
her ample commercial success, the Chicago
native says she has always dreamed of per
forming before African American audiences,
so much so that when a friend asked her to
take an offstage part in a production of
"Pandora's Box" at the 2003 festival, the
veteran thespian jumped at the chance.
"I was dying to be a part of black the
ater," Pinkins confessed. "I would have done
anything to come, and literally, I did. It was
so worth it."
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Photos by Todd Luck
Left: Simply Soul's
Sony a and Steve
Waddell are cele
brating their
restaurant's first
anniversary.
Below: DAT'S
Good Food's
Anthony Westberry
poses with some oj
his offerings.
Soul Food Revolution
New restaurants serving up Southern favorites
l BY TODD LUCK
I THF. CHRONICLE ?
Both DAT'S Good Food and Simply Soul
opened last year and have built up their customer
bases one meal at a time.
Sonya and Steve Waddell opened Simply Soul,
4339 South Main St., a year ago this week. She
maintains a full-time job as an office manager and
waits tables at the restaurant on weekends. He is a
self-taught cook who helps create the Simply Soul's
southern-inspired fare, which includes pork chops,
mac and cheese, turkey legs and a vast array of fresh
veggies and desserts. Many customers wash it all
down with Simply Soul's signature Kool-Aid, a
house favorite.
"He loves cooking, and 1 love serving," said
See Soul Food on A10
The AKAs Are Coming
Organizers make final touches for upcoming
regional gathering
BY LAYLA GAR MS
THE CHRONICLE
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Ptmo by Layla Gam*
Dr. Linda Gilliam (front) with Sorors Kenyetta
Richmond (left)and Keshia Martin.
The ladies of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. will be paint
ing the town their trademark pink and green next month.
More than 2,500 AKAs are expected to convene at the Benton
Convention Center for the Mid-Atlantic Region's 60th anniver
sary conference April 4-7.
"It is business not as usual, but to a higher degree. We are
always ensuring that we are living out our mission, and that is
service," said Dr. Linda Gilliam, regional director of the Mid
Atlantic Region, which represents 124 chapters in North Carolina
and Virginia. "...It's always a milestone in the organization when
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Family Ties
Pholo by Lay la (farms
Members of the late, great Roland
Hayes' family, (from left) daughter,
Reba Hayes Warren; grandson, Roland
Hayes III; and loving wife, Barbara
Hayes, pose after the Winston-Salem
Bar Association's annual essay contest
at the Piedmont Club on Tuesday. The
contest paid homage to the memory of
Hayes, the county's first African
American District Court judge, who
passed away last month. Read more on
pageAI2.
Plethora of community servants to be honored
CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT
Nineteen plaques will be handed out Saturday,
March 23 at The Chronicle's 28th Annual
Community Service Gala. Accepting them will be
well-deserving local men and women whose contri
butions have created a better city, state, nation and.
in some cases, world.
As previously announced, Winston-Salem State
Head Football Coach Connell Maynor will receive
See Awards on A9
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