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The black man in the U.S.
has travelled a long and painful
road to freedom. He started as
a Nigger. He became a colored
man. He was called a Negro.
Finally he asserted the beauty
of his blackness and he asked
to be recognized as such.
Every step he traveled had
its headaches, its problems and
its rewards. Every step,
sometime painful, many times
frustrating and always
demanding, brought him nearer
to freedom and respect.
"The Beauty of
Blackness" a musicaldramatic
statement researched, written
and performed at the Memorial
Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill, April
6, by the Voices, Inc., was a
joumey into the past of the
black man, a statement of hope
for his future and an assurance
that his present is "gonna be all
right."
The appearance of the,
Voices Inc. in Chapel Hill was
sponsored by the UNC
YMCA-YWCA, Upward Bound,
the Carolina Union, the UNC
Student Government, and the
Wesley Foundation.
The performance captured
the mood of the audience like
spring water running thru an
African rock. The audience a
record turn out, applauded
every movement of the actors.
"I am a black man," echoed
amid the thumbing of African
drum. A shrilled voice
descended on, the packed
audience with a bang. The
graceful movements of the
actors gradually burst into a
Zulu chant. And the evening
began. At the end of the show
the actors received a deserved
standing ovation. The audience
was thrilled by the exotic,
sensational and the ritualistic
experience of the black past.
The show was educational
too. The audience was taken
through the slave journey from
the coasts of Africa to the
U.S., to the slave market, to a
cotton field, to the church
where the blacks had their first
taste of free speech, the night
club and finally to the Civil
Rights march on Washington
D.C.
Every age was reflected in
songs, music, poems and other
works of art that aspects of life
through which it passed. Such
adorations ultimately formed
the culture of the people. The
blacks in America are no
exception to this cultivation of
culture through the epic
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SHDDEB FILM FESTIVAL OF
SILVER SCREEN CLASSICS
JULY 10-11
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Show Beauty Of Blackness
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journeys of past experience
and the. adoration of them in
songs and other works of art.
Therefore the black man has
his own culture. But does the
lion walk the jungle
proclaiming that he is the king
of the forest?
As the Voices Inc. travelled
in musical art the road of
blackness for peace and
freedom, as they attempted to
recapture the flavor of the
black past and the nostalgia for
African heritage, they
unconsciously (or was it
consciously done?) drew a
parallel between African
peoples' quest for freedom and
the emancipation of the slaves.
Like the slaves, the Africans
saw in independence and
freedom from colonial rule the
panacea that would solve all
problems.
It did not.
No sooner did the joys of
independence end than the
demands of freedom reared its
head. Africans were startled to
discover that freedom and
independence did not imply
roses on the highway.
On the contrary,
independence came to mean
more taxes, the "control of
freedom of speech, operation
of one group against the other,
coups, and the struggle
among the people for the
leadership post left vacant by
the departing masters.
It was not an easy going.
At the final act, five actors,
. representatives of five shades
of opinion among the blacks
argued which way was quickest
for the realization of black
man's quest for freedom. They
were again cut up in the
age-old problem of identifying
the problem.
The tragedy of the black
man in the U.S. is that most do
not know to what part of
Africa their cultural base
belong. ( Hence in the attempt
to piece together an unknown
past, the mixture often
produces some unrelated
flavor.
Maybe such a mixture is
good'. For that is the whole
purpose of the endeavor a
musical entertainment that has
an intellectual message. The
message is love, group unity,
and black pride.
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BE GIVEN AWAY!
The black man in the U.S.
on his painful joumey to
freedom has acquired a high
survival quotient. He should be
the first to recognize the
danger of blackness as an
instrument of separation. He
should, as the Voices Inc. ably
demonstrated in musical terms,
work toward togetherness and
the freedom that gives him the
scope to find who he is. i
As the women actors led up
the dance, the Voices paid a
worthy tribute to the
leadership provided by the
black women when the slaves'
new environment denied the
male his traditional role of
leadership in an African
setting. As the male actors
comforted the women in the
last scene, the black women
again seemed to have
acknowledged that leadership
in the black homes now
belongs to the men.
In October 1968, the Mali
National Dancers performed in
Chapel Hill. They were
sensational, exotic and African.
The Voices Inc. on the
other hand are sensational and
exotic but in many respects
American. For their songs,
dances and experiences are as
much a function of their
American experience as the
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White Striped with Red, Green, Nayy,
Carolina Blue- from England . .
The Slocks: From Corbin's New Spring
Collection . -
Sun Glasses: Imported Polarized Lens . . .
the Belt: New Swiss Embroidered on leather
Coca-Cola some drank after
the show in American.
But there is something more
than that. The entertainment
was performed with zeal,
hunger for freedom and the
rewarding mood of what one
has gone thru.
The journey may be long,
some of the music may "be
familiar but on the whole the
show served for many as a
stepping stone for the
question: who am I? What am
I? And where am I going? That
the Voices Inc were able to
accomplish this task with a
musical entertainment is a
tribute to the diversity of
talent that formed the group.
For millions of blacks who are
seeking manhood, the answer
may lie in identifying with the
Voices Inc.
For millions of white people
too, the meaning of black
quest for recognition will
become a lot clearer with the
message that the Voices Inc.,
have for all.
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