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College presidents convene
in New Orleans
New Orleans-Concerned about
the rising cost of higher education
and commited to reinforcing
academic excellence, the presidents
of 42 private, historically Black
colleges and universities convened
in New Orleans on Oct. 4. for a
meeting of the United Negro
College Fund. This is the first that
the college chief executives havlt
gathered in New Orleans.
The presidents will be joined by
other educators and corporate
executives from around the natfon
for UNCF’s national Board of
Directors meeting. A highlight of
these meetings will be UNCF’s
40th Anniversary Dinner, at the
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diversifying their lives
NEW YORK Entering its sth
week of national syndication,
“Essence, the Telivision Program”
showcases “how people are diver
sifying their lives.” Former mem
bers of the popular singing group,
The Fifth Dimension, Marilyn
McCoo and Billy Davis, Jr. who
branched off into a duet act and
are now each pursuing individual
careers, are spotlighted.
As a couple who remain together
for all the right reasons, they are
asked by host Susan L.Taylor
about the secret to their 15-year
marriage. “One thing that we try
to keep in our marriage is
honesty,” explains McCoo, “We
support one another in the goals
of each other’s careers. W£rcJ?Qth
born-again Christians. And I feel
Who Am I?
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(or a queen). I am somebody
special. Wherever I live is a
palace. Wherever I sit is a throne,
and whatever I do reflects a royal
sense of what life is all about.”
Among royal families there is
the custom of addressing all other
royalty, no matter where they may
hail from, as “My dear cousin.”
There is a feeling that you must be
cousins because royalty normally
intermarry only with royalty, and
somewhere along the line there
must be a family linkage at least at
the cousin level.
To live among royal “cousins,”
even when others may forget their
royalty or may never have known
it, places a wonderful respon
sibility and challenge upon us. It is
this: “We shall need ot go about
every day assisting and enabling
others our cousins all to
engage in a process of self
discovery... ot learning how won
derfully important are we and all
God’s children who were
created in His perfect image. We
must help them to discover for
themselves that they, too, are of
royal dignity and worth.
For people with a deliberately
brutalized past such as are
Black Americans, this may be no
simple task. But this is what we
are compelled to do, and it may
turn into an infinitely rewarding
challenge.
In order to overcome this ego
damage uniquely imposed on
Black Americans, their special ap
proach to learning must be for
cused long term on “Who am I!”
Through the largely-Black-led
national Assult On Illiteracy
Program (AOIP), our young and
older persons are being enabled to
ask and say: “Just who am I? I
am somebody special!”
New Orleans, Hilton.
New Orleans fs the home of two
UNCF-affiliated institutions:
Dillard University and Xavier
University. The other UNCF
member colleges are located
throughout the South and one,
Wilberforce University, is in Ohio.
“It would be difficult to imagine
American higher education
without the nation’s historically
Black colleges” said UN
CF President Christopher F. Edley
“More that one-third of the Black
Students receiving bachelor’s
degrees today come from
predominently Black In
si tutions”
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Marilyn McCoo
the Lord has played a very im
porant role in helping to stabilize
our relationship”.
Also featured this week: master
of many trades, Geoffrey Holder,
actor, designer, director, dancer,
choreographer, shares another
facet... Holder, the painter; Mar
sha Michaels, social worker
turned-actress talks about her
new NYC business “On Camera
Acting Studio” which teaches kids
how to do commericials; popular
soap star Eddie Earl Hatch of “As
The World Turns” finds escapism
through cooking and shows how
to make bakeless yogurt fruit pie;
and in “Upfront”, co-host Felipe
Luciano discusses with psychiatric
social worker, Dr. Rosemary,
Allwood, “Why couples stick to
unhealthy personal relationships.”
Hunt to conduct
bank seminar
The Small Business Develop
ment Center, in conjunction with
the Small Business Administration
(SBA) will sponsor a free seminar
entitled “Obtaining a Bank Loan:
A Banker’s Point of View” on Oc
-18 from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. in
Room B-6. Skinner Hall, Augusta
College.
Mr. Eugene Hunt, manager,
C&S Gordon Highway Branch
bank will conduct the seminar.
For more information or to
make reservations, call the center
at 737-1790.
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“UPTOWN AT THE APOLLO” Richard Pryor, Sammy Davis Jr., Stevie Wonder and Sam
Moore are among the artists who have had their names in lights outside of the legendary Apollo
Theatre on 125th Street in Harlem. They will appear with Tony Brown when he turns the pages of
history and goes back into time “Uptown At The Apollo.”
Celebrity reunion
'Uptown At The Apollo ’
The Apollo Theatre on 125th
Street in Harlem was christened in
(1934. For decades, long lines of
enthusiastic fans clamored to the
theatre while a revue of
courageous and talented Black
performers entertained the
.toughest audiences in America.
The legacy of this legendary
mecca of Black entertainment will
be captured on the upcoming
editon Os TONY BROWN’S
JOURNAL.
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Jr., Stevie Wonder and Sam
Moore will appear with Tony
Brown when he turns the pages of
history and goes back in time
“Uptown At The Apollo.”
Comedy superstar Richard
Pryor humorously recounts the
night that he came in second in the
Apollo’s Amateur Night contest:
“I went up and I was doing im
pressions. Jimmy Cagney and
a bunch of (Whites). Somebody
hollered out, ‘The next one better
be Black.’ I did Sidney Poitier
quick!”
The Augusta News-Review October 13, 1984
Celebrating its golden anniver
sary, the Apollo Theatre has given
birth and nurtured many of the
leading greats in Black entertain
ment.
Musical genius Stevie Wonder
recalls his first performance at the
Apollo Theatre in 1961: “Iwas so
nervous, I was shaking and the
bongos fell on the floor and went
down and smashed the lights. I
was crushed. But I said, ‘I got to
get them back. I got to get the
people back.”
Many winners of the Apollo’s
Amateur Night contests went on to
fame and fortune. They include
Sarah Vaughn, Leslie Uggams,
Gladys Knight and the Pips, James
Brown and Dionne Warwick.
Tony Brown’s Journal takes a
nostalgic look at Amateur Night
more than 15 years ago as budding
entertainers prepared for the chan
ce of a lifetime.
The program will be seen in this
area on WCES-20 at 7:30 p.m. on
Tuesday, October 16.
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