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RACE IN AMERICA . . .
THE KERNER REPORT - 50-YEARS LATER
Featuring Commissioner John Wylie Price
Saturday, 21 @ 10am
Room T-203
>>$15-includes Dialogue and Breakfast
When race riots destroyed nearly every American city in the 1960s, President Lyndon Johnson
appointed an 11-member 1968 National Advisory Commission of Civil Disorder, aka the Kerner
Commission, he asked: What happened? Why did it happen? What can be done to prevent it
from happening again? The report concluded that America was “moving toward two societies:
one black, one white-separate and unequal.” Now fi fty-years later, DALLAS COUNTY
COMMISSIONER JOHN WYLIE PRICE sits at the head of the breakfast table declaring that
race problems in America are deeper, blacker and browner than before. Hosted by Board
Members Barbara Steele and Theresa Daniels.
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*Photo courtesy PAST Productions Columbus
PLAYWRIGHT’S SPOTLIGHT
“Steal Away”
Featuring the work of Ramona King
Sunday, 22 @ 5 pm
Clarence Muse Café Theatre
>>$ pay what you can
Five upstanding church ladies raise funds to send young Black women to college by
holding bake sales. Their latest benefi ciary, Tracyada, has more ambitious ideas. She wants
to rob a bank! The ladies refuse to cooperate until they are turned down at the bank for a
loan to send another young woman to college because the White bank manager doesn’t
think “colored girls” need an education. The ladies decide to join in. They manage to pull
off the robbery and escape as the news comes over the radio that the police suspect the
Dillinger gang! Hosted by Women Mission at the Theatre. Professional Stage Reading
coordinated by actor/director AKIN BABATUNDE. Produced by Curtis King.
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