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Ebony Group To Present Three Plays By Scheryl Gant Post Staff Writer The Ebony Group and Com pany will begin their perfor mance season this weekend with a trio of powerful, one-act plays that explore the conflict between Black youth and thëir elders in their separate fight for survival, freedom and dig nity. The plays are by three noted Black playwrites. "Soul Gone Home," by Langston Hughes, "Contributions" by Ted Shine and "The Owl Killer" by Philip Hayes Deair UTTir· *71 · « urn, special To Examine Nuclear Waste NBC News correspondent Floyd Kalber will be the re j: porter on the one-hour NBC £ Reports special that will exa jj mine the highly dangerous clear waste. The program, •Î "Danger! Radioactive jl Waste," will be telecast on ij Channel Nine Wednesday, Jan. 26 at 10 p.m. This is the first in a series of NBC Re ί; ports to be presented during ji 1977. •J ί; The program will report on :· what the United States Go ν eminent is doing to see to it f: the environment is not conta :· mina ted for this generation and those of the future. The ·: report notes that no perma :· nent solutions have yet been ·: found. % — ζ Progress is in a dead heat with destruction as the nu ll clear industry tries to keep ahead of its own waste, all of ·: which is radioactive, and therefore highly dangerous. S Improperly handled it can ·: cause cancer and-or birth de li fects. The problem then is how to best protect the American :j Soul Train To •Ç i Feature Singer £ — rr Γ; Lou Rawls ·. The inimitable voice of Lou ·: Rawls and the sophisticated :■ sounds of L.T.D. (Love, To :· getherness & Devotion) make ξ this weekend's Soul Train :j show a special treat, ■i Chicago-born Rawls contin ues his ability to stimulate *: audiences with stirring rendi ·: tions of "Groovy People" and ·: "You'll Never Find Another £ Love Like Mine," two of his :· latest releases which have ·: topped the record charts in ·: recent months. :· Holder of Grammy awards ;■ for "Dead End Street" and "A < Natural Man," Rawls has also J; acquired several gold albums, f; L T D., a versatile soul band ;. of nine musicians based in Los ·: Angeles, plays the title song Î; from its first album, Love to i the World, and "Love Ballad." ·; Although they have played as £ a unit for five years, primarily "· for record sessions, they re ·: cently completed road tours ·; with such groups as the Ave :■ rage White Band, the Isley Brothers, the O'Jays and K.C. ·: and the Sunshine Band, j; Tfle Soul Train dancers are £ on hand to keep the action lively and Don Cornelius, host •i and producer, conducts inter :j views with his guests. I The infant theatre company, currently under the direction of Michael Connors, will tra vel to three different locations in Charlotte "to bring theatre to a larger audience," Con nors says. The traveling performances will be the second effort, this year, by the Ebony Group and Company to bring the Black theatre experience to Char lotte. The company joined in with a number of other Black organizations in the recent presentation of the Broadway musical "Raisin" at Ovens Auditorium. Here is a brief look at the plays: "Soul Gone Home" bv Lane ston Hughes is set in the parlor of a walk-uç apartment in a poor, run-down section of Har lem where a child learns the raw reality of "every man for himself' at an early age. His mother, having learned her-' self, through bitter experienc es as a youth, is his teacher. The play is one of grief, guilt, blame, love and hate between an attractive .young street hustler and her dead son. During the mother's an guished wails and questioning God on why her son died, the son returns to answer her. The two have their most truthful talks ever. Willie Stradford Jr., plays the son, and Deborah Worthy plays the mother. She is un derstudied by Denise Hum phries. -Ted Shine'β "Contribution^-' is set in the South during the sit-ins of the sixties. When Mrs. Love tells her grandson, "Hell, I was a "new Negro" 76 years ago," you think that age has defeated the old woman's struggle against the humilia tion of racism. She seems to bear her burden meekly. But in the surprise ending we see that Mrs. Love has fought all along in her own, quiet way, and there is no generation gap between her and her grand cr»n "Contributions" features Willie Stradford .Ir «« thp grandson, Vermel Jackson as Mrs. Love and Linda Ham mond in the role of Katie. Deborah Worthy is Mrs. Killer," is a dramatic story about family conflict over the solutions each member finds to live with racism and op pression. The father terro rizes his family, because he blames them for all the scrap ing and bowing he does to keep his job. The son, who is never seen, has taken revenge by doing to a white man what was symbolically been done to his father: castrating him. The daughter turns to hustling her body and numbers to survive after being thrown out of the house, and the mother is torn between each of her loved ones. The three plays touch upon all aspects of how racism and prejudice has torn apart many black families by making them bitter and ashamed of each other. Performances are as fol lows: Spirit Square, Friday and Saturday, Jan. 21 and Jan. 22, 8 p-.m. Johnson C. Smith University, Saturday, Jan. 22, 2 p.m. Eastland Mall, Sunday, Jan. 23, 8 p.m. Tickets are now on sale at Spirit Square. Read the Charlotte Post Each Week. It's your best source of news about the people you know. It αιη t legal an it sure ain't safe ... but it do seem worthwhile! 3 Fred Williamson In % FEATURE ^ „ β 1 2 That Man Bolt I FEATURE I 3 Cornbread, Earl And Me I 3 BIG SHOWS STARTS $1.00 ££ T-O-D-A-Y I Carolina Theatre Young Kunta Kinte (LeVar Burton, right) receives a lesson in the meaning of manhood from Touray, played by O.J. Simpson, in the multi-part drama ROOTS, based on Alex Haley's best-selling book, airing January 23-30 on Channel 18 and the ABC Television Network. Sunday Night Haley s "Koots Is I V Speci al By Scheryl Gant Post'Staff Writer Alex Haley says that while researching his book "Roots," his feelings were so strong at times, he "felt like walking back through history swinging an ax." Hopefully most of the explo siveness of Haley's story has —Koji? prtorvni hy the . ABC Television network (WCCB, Channel 18 in Charlotte) which will be showing their eight part documentary of "Roots" Sunday, January 23, at 9 p.m. Beginning with a handful of African words and a story of a young African stolen from the river bank near his home, Haley traces his ancestors back to the Mandingo tribe in Gambia, West Africa. The summer evening porch talk by Haley's grandmother and his aunts of an African named Kinte <Kintay), who no llori tho ρίυΑΐ· "V omKti Da longo" and a banjo "Ko," led" Haley back through the 1870 census records of Alamance County, North Carolina to the tobacco plantation^yhnrqJfeef old WWilfti wereg^HfQI JmtI Haley journeyedhack to the sparse slave cabin in Caswell County, North Carolina where his great-great grandfather, "Chicken George" would ga ther his children around the fireside and tell them of Kinte. From there Haley went back to 1805 where as a 16-year-old girl, "Chicken George's" mo ther, Kizzy, thrashes and screams for mercy as her drunken, white owner bangs her head against the floor and rapes her until she passes out. Back Haley searches, past ,the woods in Spotsylvania | Keep your out-of-town friends informed on what's happening in Charlotte by sending them a copy of the Charlotte Post each week. The cost is only $8 per year. County, Virginia where Kinte cries in anguish as an ax crashes through his flesh, se parating his foot near the ankle, back to 1766, where on the banks of the Gambia River 16-year-old Kinte goes to get wood for a drum and is beaten, kidnapped, chained, shackled and thrown into "the stinking blackness" of the American -sieveship "lord Ljgnor," and from there on to back mort than 200 years in Old Mali where the Kinte clan began. Haley, 55, says that he pre· sents all the facts of how millions of Blacks in North and South America and the West Indies "came in the THE TRIUMPH OF AN AMERICAN FAMILY ROOTS. TODArS BEST-SELLING BOOK BY ALEX HALEY COMES TO TELEVISION TONIGHT; IT BEGINS WITH A PROUO AFRICAN WARRIOR SLAVERY SHACKLED HIS BODY. BUT IT COULDN'T CHAIN HIS SOUL ROOTS IS HIS STORY. THE STORY OF HIS I run ππγν ΛΝΒ Hit run nnrm run nnrti ABC-TV, beginning Sunday, January 23, and running for eight consecutive nights' Check local listings for the' time of each night's telecast \ Paitnt»! distrtton η »dws«! "CAR WASH':....where,between the hours of 9 and 5 anything can happen... and usually does! CM VAH&mi Siets fruklfi A|a|« · (ινμ Carlii Frifessir Irvii (ire) · liai lixu · Aitiiii farjas · lirraiie Can Jack Iche · Clareice Mise * Iit fiiitir Sisters -lickar( hjw| PLUS 2nd FEATURE "Wattstax " 2 BIG SHOWS NOW $i.ooCe|showing _ Dilworth Theatre seeds of oir forefather·, cap tured, driven, beaten, inspect ed, brought, branded, chained in four ships..." but does not make any charges. He leaves that to the reader. ABC has reportedly speat $6 million on produciag "Roots." Hopefully all of Haley'a facta will be presented with the same force of the book, so that -the-viewers fan draw their own conclusions. 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