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THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 2
Tabor
looks
forward to
season
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Trade
businesses
will soon
shut doors
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Angelou
column
makes
debut .
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Family
event
attracts
many
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Photo* by Jaeson Pin
Actress Ruby Dee lis
tens as Larry Leon
Hamlin talks about
the legacy of her
late husband , Ossie
Davis. The leg
endary actor was
remembered Mon
day at the Opening
Night Gala of the
2005 National Black
Theatre Festival.
Below: Actor Mal
colm-Jamal Warner
speaks at a news
conference earlier
this week. The actor
is becoming a festi
val regular. He stars
in his one-man
show, " Love A Other
Social Issues at
this year's NBTF.
Kaboom!
National Black Theatre Festival
is off to a blast
CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT
It is hard to determine who
is having more fun this week
at the 2005 National Black
stars with good memories
have actually formed bonds
with theater fans they have
met over the years.
"I have actually watched
Theatre Festival -
the celebrities or
the fans who have
come from all
across the country
to see them. Both
groups have been
seen chronicling
their experiences at
the festival with
digital cameras and
camcorders.
And even
though many of the
people's kids grow,"
said actress Ella
Joyce, who has
attended seven
straight festivals.
The 2005 NBTF
officially kicked off
Monday, but the
patented energy that
the event brings to
the city was already
in the air days
before that. Festival
founder, producer
actors are working in plays
and musicals this week, most
of them consider festival
week to be the best vacation
they have ever had. a time to
gain energy and inspiration.
By most accounts, the fes
tival is more like a family
reunion. Some celebrities see
each other only every two
years at the festival. Those
and artistic director Larry
Leon Hamlin has come to call
his festival "Black Theatre
Holy Ground." And the event
is sacred to many just as is
black theater, an art form that
the festival has allowed to
thrive.
"There is a certain swag
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Actor Daniel Beaty (right) shares a laugh with Larry Leon Hamlin and his father ; Danny Beaty,
in the lobby of the Marriott on Monday.
Actor 's reconnection
with his father has
been real-life drama
Nowfae, Beaty's father had been in and out of jail _
ALKER '?
THE CHRONICLE
There is a monologue thai
Daniel Beaty delivers in his one
man show "Emergence-See1" in
which he laments about a young
boy who loqgs for a male role
model, someone to teach him how
"to dribble a ball, talk to a lady,
walk like a man."
Beaty is a Yale-trained actor,
but the power and passion that he
invokes when he recites the piece
is no act. Beaty spent much of his
life physically and emotionally
separated from his father, Danny
Beaty. The elder Beaty has spent
much of his 58 years of life
behind bars, a fact that he is not
proud of but not ashamed to talk
about.
"I gave my life to crime. I
thought I had a right to do things
my way," said Danny Beaty. who
was locked up for the very first
time when he was only 10 years
old for stealing watches. Danny
Beaty just finished his most recent
- ami what he says is his last -
stint in prison. He got out in
November after serving nearly 10
years for aggravated assault.
Danny Beaty kept up with his
See Beaty on A7
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Sit-in
hero to
take on
Burke
Carl Matthews is upset
that the city demolished
his daughter's house
BY T. KEVIN WALKER
THE CHRONICLE
It will be legend against
legend in the Sept. 27 Demo
cratic primary for the North
east City Council Ward.
Carl Matthews filed late
last week to run for the seat.
He will
face
longtime
Council
Member
Vivian
Burke
and
Rasheed
Bey,
who has
fre
quently
run for the council over the
years. Others could file to run
in the ward before tomor
row's 5 p.m. deadline.
Matthews is a well-known
local civil rights pioneer. In
I960, he led a group of Win
ston-Salem State and Wake
Forest students in a sit-move
ment aimed at forcing down
town five-and-dime stores to
integrate their lunch counters.
Matthews was jailed and
threatened along the way, but
the movement was a success.
The department stores buck
led to the pressure that the
sit-ins created and opened the
lunch counters to blacks.
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School
coming
to town
Teens will learn
interworkings of state
government
BY COURTNEY GAILLARD
THE CHRONICLE
V
Winston-Salem will host a
two-day legislative seminar for
high
school
students
Aug. 27
28. The
fl arre 1 1
School of
Govern
m e n t
promises
to give
local
young
people the chance to experi
ence the inner workings of the
N.C. General Assembly.
A slew of state and local
elected officials - including
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