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Word."
Sp 1 I invit d u t in­
clud: Bill linton,
d mocr tic pre idential
candid t • nd th Rev. Dr.
Garon r C. Taylor, pa tor
emeritu of the Con ord
Bapn t Church of Br00 -
lyn. e Yor.
St. Stephen'
Banquet et
Women'
.conterence
scheduled
Oak Grove African
Me thodis t Episcopal
Church will sponsor a Fall
Women's Conference,
Women Working
Wonders September 25-
27,1990.
The proceeds from the
conference will benefit the
L.I.F.T. (Looking Into The
Future Together)
Women's Resource ee,­
ter.
The Resource Center is
scheduled to open Septem­
ber 1992. The mission is to
counsel and provide sup­
port to abused, battered
and neglected women.
The registration fee for
the conference is $50.
Deadline for registration is
September 11.
For more information
on the conference call
(313) 341-8877.
RELIGION
time.
Our trip to J pan i coming up oon.
We were in th Baham a couple of
wee ago, nd it uper fantastic."
Additional, Malaco j t reI ed th debut
lbum of the Mi i ippi Children'
Choir. It tarted out mere PR ituation
for th mas choir, and it turned out so well
that we aid," well, we have something here.
It' getting great response, and it's going
And America' "we lthie t" Bl c
church"? ell, t' co idered by m ny to
be tIan ' Whe t St. B pti t Church. Real
estate holdin alon top 33 million.
merica's wealthiest Black
church? 80 percent of this nation' 30
million Bl c belongs to one of the ven
major BI ck church group .
Taking in upwards of $1.7 billion in
offerings, Black churches are now preaching
building, inve ling and ownership to help
revive Black communities throughout the
country. One Detroit church bought an
eight-bloc wasteland and turned it into a
comple including f t-food restaurants and
other businesse .
In Queens, Allen AME runs a corporation
November 5th is the date et for the
Eight Annual Stellar Aw rds, a tar- tudded
two-hour g pel m ic tribute both honorin
and featuring ome of the bigg t nam in
go pel m ie..
A 14 rating in Bl ck hom helped to
make 1 t year's program th high t rated
how Don Jack on' Central City
Productio ever bad. Still, there were
OIDe concerns raj ed in last' year how.
This year, producer-creator Don J c on
i making a special effort to be more
sensitive. "The vibrations we did get bac ,"
71is �S sapue: '� {PCXi
man out of the {PCXi trecsIe ci
his heart brirYJ8lh forth that
'Nhidl is {PCXi; a7d WI fM1 man
out of the evI tr£mua of his
heart brirgeth fot1h that 'Nhidl is
EMl' for of the ab.JrdcraJ of
the heart his mwth speci<eth, •
-Luke 6:45.
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SmoothIng ContenIion
Mr. O'Neal also had stage roles in
"Take a Giant Step," "House of
Flowers, " "Lost in theStars, " and "Bal­
lodfor Bimshire". In films, he was seen
in "Pinky", "No Way Out", and "Some­
thing of Value".
Mr. O'neal was tbc-president of the
Actors' Equity Association qom 1964
to 1973 and was named president
emeritus after leaving office. A soft­
spoken, big-boned, six-footer, his
gentleness sometiines irritated the more
miHtant younger members of Equity.
When mee� got terse, � had a
knack for breaking the strain, either by
The 5th Anniversary By SHEILA RULE
Banquet for St. Stephen'
Community Church in R!PfIntfrom N.w York nm.
Lansing will be held on Fredric 0' eal,anaward-winning
Friday September 25th at eor who was the first Bla president
the MSU Kello Center of the Actors' Equity iation, died
in East Lansing. on Tuesday at his home in Manhattan.
The theme fOJ the an- He 86 years old He died after a
niversary ce ation is long illness, said Diclc Moore, a spokes-
"Je us I The Answer For man for the union.
The World Today." A character actor wOOse reviews
Keynote speaker will refiected his ability to evade typecast-
be the Rev. Dr. Henry Sim- ing. Mr. O'Neal ac1ed on stage aoo
mons of New York City. television aoo in film. He made his
" Broadway debut in 1944 in the role of
v. 0
o 11'\ &l\I\� JJ �A ... � "Anna�-
, • urcn of.lhiri in L '
ork. (orm ""_J�"'. his fx: wo the
secretary for Ethnic and Clarence Derwent Award as most
Mi�rity Church Develop- promising newcomer of the theater
me�t with the United season, the New York Drama Cities'
Church of Christ and has Awardforbestsupportingperformarx:e
served as pastor of everal of 1� and the Donaldson Award for
c.hurche including the 1944-45 season, He recreated the
Mayflower U.C.C. in role in Chicago am London and in the
Detroit. film versio« of � play.
The banquet will also
feature a special musical
pre entation and program.
For ticket information
call (517) 484-2180.
,
a quip or by calling a coffee break. He
told lively jokes that often surprised
tbose who expeced staider comments
from him.
Named for Fredric Dpugla, the
19tb-century black jownalist andstatt:s­
man, FJedrick Douglas O'Neal was
born in 1905 in Brooksville, Miss.,
wheJe his fa�rwas a teacher aoo mer­
chant. Although he and his seven
brothers aoo sisters were often pajnfully
aware of segregation, they did notsutIer
economically.
In 1919, when his father died, rather
substansial property holdin� were sold
am the'�1� to St, Louis, I
w .� Mr. O'Neal calfCd his i¥lmetown
and where, In t927;" 1le 11m acted
professionally.
Belafonte, Alice Childre ,Sidney
Poi tier, they all started with our
theater."
Equity and Associated Actors 'by
Theodre Bikel.
Mr. O'Neal received everal
honorary degrees, including an
Honorary Doctor of Human Letters
from St John' University in 1981. He
had also been honored by the ational
Urban League, the Black aeritage As
soclation and the National hsodation
for the Advancement of Colored
People, which named him is man of the
year in 1919. In 1990, the Black F11m
Maker' Hall·of Fame paid him a spe­
cial tJibute,
He is swvived by his wife of 50
years, Cbadotte Talbot Ha�y.
The Pul of til St8ge
Fwther l..eMIerehIp Po.ta
The theater produced "AnnaLucas­
ta" in June 1944, and it w produced
on Broadway the following Sep r,
Mr. O'Neal also belped to organize t�
British Negro Theater in London 1948.
Mr. O'Neal was elected president of
the Associated Actors and Artists in
1970 and retired from the position in
1988. He also rved for many years as
a. pJt$j _ { 1-F.L-C.l.O.
and at t executive CO\Ul-
. eil, He r , 'ed·it iK>th Actors' _. ,,-- ,.\ :
" ,- . " , I, 1,\
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FREDERICK O'NEAL
He had been stagestruck ever since
he appeared as a child in amatucr
theatricals in Brooksville. He said the
realization that the stage could let some­
ore take a trip into an imaginary world
aOO attract attention bad led him 10
cboose acting instead of medicine or
business a career.
In an interview in the New York
TImes in 1964, Mr. O'Neal said the
most frequent member of the audience
at the Brooksville productions was the
midwife woo delivered half the town,
"S� just sat there," he said. "You
couldn't tell if she lilced it or rot, But it
kindled my desire for acting .. "
In 1�, Mr. O'N� � so� ·r � ��;;ii;;ii;;����;;;;�;;Ii;;;;==��1I
frieOOs organized the Aldri�* Players,
a Black theater group named for Ira
Aldridge, the first Black to play Ot�llo.
He came to New York in 1936, and
worked for several years as a laboratory
assistant while studying acting at night
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Dissatisfied with the state of the
Black tia1cr, be �lped to fowx1 the
American Negro TInter in 1940 and
appeared in a number of its produc­
tiOn5.
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" Rev. A.J. Rogers
Joe Ella likely
catherine Robinson
Gloria Parker
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, "We got $22,500 from tre Rock­
efellers during the 10 years it lasted,"
Mr. O'Neal said of the theater. "1 have
often tlx>ught where could you get so
much for so little. Earle Hyman, Harry
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