BOBBEE BEE: NATIONAL BLACK THEATRE FESTIVAL

WINSTON-SALEM GET READY FOR THE NATIONAL BLACK THEATRE FESTIVAL!!! (July 31 - August 5, 2017)

The 15th National Black Theatre Festival (NBTF) rolls out the purple carpet July 31 - August 5, 2017 in Winston-Salem, transforming North Carolina's city of arts and innovation in a mega-performing arts centre with over 100 performances in a number of the city’s venues.

Theatre workshops, films, seminars, a teen poetry slam and a star-studded celebrity gala all work together to accomplish the goal of making the National Black Theatre Festivals one of the best theater festivals in the country.

The history of celebrity appearances and performances at the National Black Theatre Festival is not only impressive, but also extensive.

Visitors can expect to see a number of familiar faces as well as up-and-coming amateurs to the big stage.

Each phenomenal festival saturates our city with thousands of theatre goers and theatre professionals from all around the globe into our heavily art-inspired city.

BOBBEE BEE: 2017 CAROLINA MUSIC AWARDS

By Eric D. Graham

Get Ready!!! for the 10th Annual Carolina Awards this Saturday, August 5th 2017 at the Duke Energy Center For The Performing Arts in Raleigh, North Carolina.

The focus of the Carolina Music Awards is to recognize Carolina artists in Rock, Hip Hop, Youth, Bluegrass, Americana, Country and R&B as well as to develop an often "overlooked and overshadowed" music industry that is slowly growing in the Carolinas, while encouraging local musicians, both present and future.

With over 3000 nominees, 4000 nominees, 500,000 votes, 300 musical artists have received awards from CM since its inception.

This year Carolina Music Awards officially starts on August 3rd with the Pre-Party at IMURJ, which is hosted by K97.5 Mir.I.am.

At the event, fans will have opportunity to mingle and watch performances from 2017 Nominees N'Kognito, Shame, FTO, 9192, Cody Daniels, Reef Marley, Ivy Monae, Chyna Donne, Trez Falsetto, Paris Natoria, and Imani Pressley.

For more information go to www.carolinamusicawards.com

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BOBBEE BEE: VERBAL ABUSE (WORDS CAN KILL)

"My inmost being will rejoice when your lips speak right things" Proverbs 23:16

AFTERNOON SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON-When it comes to practicing anger management, here are two important Bible principles:

(1) Don't blame people and things. Blaming is a way of evading responsibility while pointing your finger elsewhere.

"If only you'd arrive on time, I wouldn't have to nag you.

b>Words like that don't help, they just antagonize the other person, perpetuate your anger, and fail to get the... results you want. (2.) Don't use words as weapons or a form of control.

Instead keep your emotions in check and express them in a healthy way. Remember, your goal is to solve the problem and strengthen the relationship, not leave wounds that fester.

Is that easy to do? No-that's why you may need The Most High's help.

The Bible says that your words can crush the other person's spirit (Proverbs 18:14) break their heart (Proverbs: 15:4) and destroy the relationship (Pr. 18:21).

Solomon said that angry words 'go down into a man's inmost part" (Proverbs 26:22)

What you say can live in the memory of the another person's their whole life-all the way to the grave.

On the other hand, anger properly managed never needs to be regretted or repented of.

Learn to discern the difference between anger you feel and the words you speak.

Anger can reveal what needs to be changed in the relationship.

So ask the Most High to show you what needs changing-first in yourself then in the other person. (Source: The Word For Today)

BOBBEE BEE: E.E. SMITH HIGH SCHOOL (1964) OUR FABULOUS FIVE

OUR FABULOUS FIVE-by Eric D.Graham

On Dec.26, 1964, despite all the racial tension throughout the country, the legendary Celtics coach Red Auerbach was the first NBA coach to send an all Black starting line-up on the court during a NBA game.

That team consisted of K.C. Jones, Sam Jones (from NCCU), Willie Naulls, Bill Russell, Satch Sanders, and a young John Thompson. Not surprisingly, that Celtic team went on to win the NBA Championship in 1965 and 1966.

But, we weren't impressed by the Celtics. Why? Because, at E.E. Smith High School in 1964, we had our OWN starting five, which had the fans in Duplin County going crazy with their sharp-shooting and dazzling dribbling skills in one of the best Gymtorium in the county.

Our starting five for the Wildcats in 1964 included: (left to right) Samuel Middleton, Joesph Moore, Linwood Davis, Willie Smith, John E. Kenan and coach Charles McKoy.

Sidebar: Boston's all-Black starting line-up in 64' is one of the main reasons why many older Black men still cheer for the Celtics today along with the fact that the Celtics -from (1957 to 1969), won the NBA Finals 11 out of 13 times, including eight consecutive championships.

BOBBEE BEE: THE DUPLIN COUNTY ALL STARS SEMI-PRO "77"-

THE DUPLIN COUNTY ALL STARS SEMI-PRO "77"-The Duplin All Star Basketball Team ended their season in Sampson County April 23, by defeating the "Nuggets" 105 to 87 for the championship.

Curtis Farrior was selected the playoffs most valuable player by the Sampson High Alumni Association. W.Graham, M.Smith, L.Brock, C.Farrior and Earl Glaspie all scored in double figures.

Coach Johnny Farrior says "...He has the best team ever in the history of the all-stars. The team has traveled to places, such as Kinston, Little Washington, Elizabethtown, to play teams that are the best in their counties. The Duplin All-Stars have never been defeated at home, ending their season with a 10-3 conference record and 10-0 non-conference record."

Pictured (L-R) Front Row-M.Smith, E.Glaspie, Larry Brock, Lewis Hall, and Earl Pearsall. Back Row-Coach Johnny Farrior, Mgr. Donald Farrior, Joe Smith, Cicero Davis, William Graham, Curtis Farrior. (Not Shown) Shelton Outlaw, Bryant McIver, and Ronnie Newirk. (Photo:Leslie Williams, Wallace Enterprise) by eric d. graham See More

BOBBEE BEE: THE UNTOLD GREATNESS OF DUPLIN COUNTY: THE HISTORY OF E.E.SMITH (please share & frame)

THE UNTOLD GREATNESS OF DUPLIN COUNTY: THE HISTORY OF E.E.SMITH (please share & frame)

Ezekiel Ezra Smith, educator and diplomat, the son of free Blacks Alexander and Caroline Smith, was born in Duplin County on the farm where his father was working as a laborer. His mother's family had been free for many generations, but his father was the first of his family to be emancipated.

Because of laws prohibiting the teaching of Blacks, the young boy received no formal education, but he did learn from his white playmates.

After the Civil War he attended a school in Wilmington conducted at night by the Freedmen's Bureau, but he worked in naval stores during the day. In 1869 he moved to Wayne County, where he attended the equivalent of high school while also becoming a teacher himself. After four years of preparation, he enrolled in Shaw University and received a bachelor's degree in 1878.

Accepting a position as principal of a Black grade school in Goldsboro, young Smith began a lifelong friendship with Dr. Edwin A. Alderman, principal of one of the white schools there. In 1883 he was selected to succeed Charles W. Chesnutt as head of the Fayetteville State Normal School, then only five years old, which met in a small four-room building and faced financial difficulties. Smith is credited with saving the school, now Fayetteville State University.

Also an ordained Baptist minister, he was pastor of the First Baptist Church in Fayetteville for six years. He served as president of the State Baptist Convention and was a member of the executive board of the Lott Carey Foreign Missions Convention.

The fact that Smith had been a member of the Democratic party since the early 1870s is assumed to be the reason he won legislative support for his school. His political orientation also resulted in his appointment by Democratic president Grover Cleveland as resident minister and general consul to the Republic of Liberia in 1888. In that post he was able to restore more cordial relations between Liberia and the United States.

With a change in the national administration, Smith returned home and earned a doctorate from Shaw University. He spent one year as principal of a high school in Asheville before returning to the Fayetteville institution that he had previously led. With a new campus and new buildings came better support and development into a degree-granting college. He remained the head of that institution for the remainder of his life, spending a total of forty-two years there except for an occasional leave of absence. He was president of the State Teachers' Association in 1906.

A man of many talents, Smith was appointed a major in the Home Guard in 1880 and was adjutant with the rank of captain in the Third North Carolina Regiment in 1898; though recruited for service in the Spanish-American War, he was never called up. In 1881 he organized and operated the Carolina Enterprise, the first newspaper in the state for Blacks. Later he was editor of the Banner Enterprise and the Baptist Sentinel.

Smith married Willie A. Burnett on 17 Nov. 1875, and they were the parents of one son, E. E., Jr., who became a physician in Newport News, Va. His wife died in 1907, and the following year he married Nannie Louise Goode. He was buried in Brookside Cemetery, Fayetteville. (Source: Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, 6 volumes, edited by William S. Powell. Copyright ©1979-1996 by the University of North Carolina Press)

BOBBEE BEE: GETTING READY FOR PRIMETIME!!! (KEYSHAWN CANADY)

GETTING READY FOR PRIMETIME!!!-by Eric D. Graham

After his first Red-shirt season at East Carolina under new head coach Scottie Montgomery, former Wallace Rose-Hill Football Superstar Keyshawn Canady, who is the son of Victor Canady and Evelyn Canady, is ready to compete for significant playing time at the defensive back position this season after an impressive showing in the Pirates' annual (Purple and Gold) inter...squad games in April, which he had an interception and eight total tackles.

Canady, who is known more for his speed (4.3 in the 40-yard dash) rather than his "toughness" in high school, where he ran for more than 1,000 yards for two consecutive season as a Bulldog, said he has been "living in the weightroom" in order to prepare himself for the physciality of playing Division I football and has increased his bench press to 300 pounds, while adding on 5 pounds of muscle to his 6-foot frame.
ECU willl begin its season in Greenville on Sept.2 against James Madison (ESPN3) before traveling to Blacksburg on Sept.16 to face the Hokies of Virginia Tech, which also will be televised on CBS.

With that said, let's put on our purple and gold and cheer for Keyshawn's success in the process!!!