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Dee speaks at MLK celebration
Ruby Dee, actress and activist, was the keynote speaker for
the 9th annual IVlartin Luther King Jr. celebration in K. R.
Williams Auditorium Jan. 19. Approximately 900 people attend
ed the event presented by Winston-Salem State University and
Wake Forest University.
Review: Sparks’ “Nights in Rodanthe”
creates story of hope and love
By Stephanie Douthit
Editor In Chief
New York Times Bestseller
and N.C. native, Nicholas
Sparks creates another love
story that satisfies the notion
that true love does exist.
"Nights in Rodanthe" is a tale
of hope and joy and finding
true love at any age.
Everyone searches to find his
or her one true love, whose
unwavering love lasts a life
time.
Some never find that love,
but Adrienne gets a second
chance with Paul, a man taking
another turn at love as well.
The pair met in the small
coastal town of Rodanthe, N.C.
Adrienne has fled to the quiet
town to tend a friend's inn; she
is heartbroken after her hus
band leaves her for a younger
woman.
When she and her hus
band split up, it was more
than the ending of their mar
riage; it ended everything
Adrienne had hoped for in
the future.
Paul, the inn's only guest,
whose obsession with work
ruined his relationship with his
wife and son, is leaving every
thing behind to start over.
With a terrible storm closing
in on the old inn, the couple
braced for its arrival and the
unexpected comfort they find
in each other.
With flashes from the past,
readers learn how special this
love is after years of heartache.
Together Paul and Adrienne
feel the hope, fear, confusion,
acceptance, passion and
reserve after years of being
alone.
As soon as the storm passes,
so does their time together.
Paul is leaving the country to
try to rebuild his relationship
with his son.
The couple write each other
to keep the feelings alive that
they experienced that fateful
weekend,
Paul and Adrienne must live
through loneliness and tragedy
the year they are apart, but
their love is forever engrained
in the moments they spent
together in Rodanthe.
They do not know how or
why it happened, but they
know they were meant to go to
the small coastal town in North
Carolina.
For so many years, Paul and
Adrienne have been missing
something. They did not know
what it was, and through time
together, they discovered their
true love.
Sparks is also the author of
numerous No. 1 New York
Times Bestsellers including
"The Rescue," "The
Notebook," "Message in a
Bottle," "A Walk to
Remember," "A Bend in the
Road," "The Guardian" and
"The Wedding." He also wrote
his memoir with his brother,
"Three Weeks with My
Brother."
Many of Sparks ' novels have
been adapted into major
motion pictures, including
"Nights in Rodanthe."
Sparks lives in North
Carolina, with his family.
Gallery exhibit celebrates global cultures
Winston-Salem State
University's Diggs Gallery
began the new year with a
reception for the "Charles
Searles; Universal Reflections
of Colors and Rhythm"
exhibit.
The exhibit opened Jan. 23
through March 21.
The exhibit is free to the pub
lic and is also featuring the
works of his wife Kathleen
Spicer Searles.
"Charles Searles' work
reflects the universal rhythms
of human nature; they are
bold, expressive and celebra
tory of global cultures.
"The influence of dance and
music as universal languages
is evident throughout his col
orful canvases and often larger
than life sculptures,” explains
Diggs Gallery director and
curator Belinda Tate.
"The opening of this exhibi
tion is timely as America ush
ers in a new era of global racial
and cultural respect and coop
eration."
Charles Searles who was
born and raised in
Philadelphia where he had a
middle class family who shel
tered him from racism.
Searles did not see the differ
ence in how blacks and whites
were treated. After he returned
from the army he went back to
Philadelphia in hopes of pursu
ing a career in the arts.
He graduated with a degree
from the Pennsylvania
Academy of Fine Arts.
In his early artwork he was
characterized by muted and
somber tones, and he would
express the more bleak aspects
of racism and poverty and seg
regation occurring in America.
His travels to Ghana, Nigeria
and Morocco in the early
1970's steered him to a deeper
understanding of the universal
nature of mankind.
Charles Searles' work has
been exhibited throughout the
United States and abroad.
Charles Searles is repre
sented in several museums
including the Philadelphia
Museum of Art and National
Museum of American Art.
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Jazz musician, composer Wynton Marsalis to perform Jan. 31
The world-renowned Jazz at
Lincoln Center Orchestra with
Wynton Marsalis will perform
Jan. 31 at 7:30 p.m. in the
Kenneth R. Williams
Auditorium at Winston-Salem
State University.
For ticket information call
the University Ticket Office at
336-750-3220 . Ticket prices are
$47 in advance; $55 the day of
the show; and $12 for WSSU
Students with proper l.D.
This signature musical event
is sponsored by WSSU's
Lyceum Cultural Events and
the Division of Student Affairs.
The first jazz composer to
win a Pulitzer Prize in music.
New Orleans native Wynton
Marsalis also was the first
artist to win jazz and classical
Grammy Awards in the same
year. His Jazz at Lincoln Center
Orchestra, composed of 15 of
today's finest jazz soloists and
ensemble players, has been the
Jazz at Lincoln Center resident
orchestra since 1992.
Featured in all aspects of
Jazz at Lincoln Center's pro
gramming, the remarkably
versatile Jazz at Lincoln Center
Orchestra performs and leads
educational events in New
York, across the U.S. and
around the world; in concert
halls, dance venues, jazz clubs.
public parks, riverboats, and
churches; and with symphony
orchestras, ballet troupes, local
students and an ever-expand-
ing roster of guest artists.
Under music director
Wynton Marsalis, the Jazz at
Lincoln Center Orchestra
spends over a third of the year
on tour. The big band performs
a vast repertoire, from rare his
toric compositions and Jazz at
Lincoln Center-commissioned
works, to compositions and
arrangements by Duke
Ellington and many others.
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