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PRESS RELEASE:
The citizens in Holly Springs paid tribute to Ida B. Wells and named a street in her honor and for her service to America. Ms Wells was a journalist during some of the most racially challenging times in American History. She was a founding member of the Niagara Falls Movement that later became the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Shown posing in the picture is Ms Annie Moffitt, Founder and owner of Annie’s Restaurant. Ms. Moffitt is a business and community activist and supports education, especially the Harlem Renaissance Era which was a part of the life of Ida B. Wells life.
PS Ida B. Wells was one of the characters in the play “Happy Birthday Ms Harriet Tubman,” a play about Blalck Women organizing t0 gain the vote after helping white women written by Haywood Fennell, Sr. and performed under the direction of Mrs, Monica Anderson-Spencer. The play was performed by the Oscar Micheaux Family Theater Program Company.

PRESS RELEASE:
Seen is Ms Annie Moffitt, a business woman and community leader dressed in honor of Ida B. Wells who was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi. Ms Wells had a career as a national leader and journalist. She was one of the Niagara Falls Movement that would it’s name to the National Advancement for Colored People. Ms Moffitt was a participant in the street renaming in honor of Ida B. Wells in her home town of Holly Springs.

PRESS RELEASE:
The most compelling (my opinion) in the history of the United States is the history of the Harlem Renaissance Era. It is about a history that has surged over the barriers of capture for we were NEVER slaves, racist laws and hate to catch up and seed minds to think spiritual and worthy as our Ancestors stepped up. We are here!!!. They were told, NO, NEVER and that did not stop them. Not being paid and chased from the stage as white entertainers put grease paint on their faces but their voices or talent was no match.
Some went to Europe, but Europewas not their home. They came back. (Some stayed like La Baker aka Josephine Baker). She became a French hero and a hero in her native land, America. Our history is nomstery. Come out and bring a friend. read the attached flyer and call for what will be an experience that you will never forget. This is our 25th year and we are honored and blessed to have the Department of Africana Music department at Berklee College of Music providing technical and theatertric resources for revising thhe play making it more exciting using HipHop and other production values to entertain and educate. Looking forward to seeing you.

of splashing water could be heard with images of bodies being thrown into watery graves in chains there were no screams, only silence as they were moved from the land of freedom to a darkness of slavery. To be sold and later branded with a hot iron claiming ownership and a denial of who they were as those once in the watery graves spirits rise, we hear.
Hhaywood Fennell, Sr. Remembering that nobody wants to be us, but we are everyone May 1st 2022
Please get involved with reading books written by Haywood Fennell, Sr. by ordering direct. Simply submit the book title and number of books to haywoodfennell4@gmail.com and we will get your order to you with your invoice.

As a person working in the community to build courage and have been successful because of a team of people that have donated their time and shared their respective talents for the growth and the development of confidence to do and be bigger using theater as taught by the Oscar Micheaux Family Theater Program Company, in the spirit of the Harlem Renaissance Era. We are in our 25th year of performing and we have you to thank that have sat in those seats in Boston and other places in the Commonwealth.
There were no philanthropic organizations giving to Black people during that time. Those organizations today have been slow in providing funds to cultural programs/projects in the manner that would assist in development. During the time of the evolution of the many pioneers of the Harlem Renaissance Era folks depended on the community to show up as we do now. To see the history of triumph over adversities unfold in a theater production of an intergenerational case builds the spirit as well as the confidence of those on stage and others providing the technical assistance.
This year with the able assistance of the Department of Africana Studies at Berklee College of Music under the leadership of Rev. Dr. Emmett G. Price, lll we see and we will live the core thrust of the Harlem Renaissance Era that still reverberates today, sharing and caring. I thank ALL those involved for your prayers annd support. CURTAINS are going up for our 2022-23 season on November 12th at the Media Arts Center at Roxbury Community College. Ticket sales soon.