2016 When Sugar Hill Was Sweet Program Booklet
This booklet is an archived copy of the booklet WWSH published for its first year of programming.
This booklet is an archived copy of the booklet WWSH published for its first year of programming.
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on our website and elsewhere—check<br />
www.wwsh.nyc on August 8th!<br />
We’ll Be Closing Out the Day With<br />
A Jam Session!<br />
media partner<br />
Terrance McKnight<br />
Melba Joyce<br />
The <strong>Sugar</strong> <strong>Hill</strong> Quartet<br />
The West Village Quartet<br />
Angela L. Owens (soprano) and<br />
Charles David Carter (bassbaritone)—operatic<br />
duo, with<br />
accompaniment by Roy Jennings<br />
Emcee, Daa’iya Lomax of WHCR’s<br />
“Gardens of Tranquility and<br />
Contemplation”<br />
Friday, September 16<br />
9:30am-8:30pm<br />
A Day of Panel Discussions and<br />
Performances at Barnard College*<br />
Milbank Hall, Krueger Lecture Hall<br />
Room 405<br />
Daddy Grace<br />
Of the Cloth: Theologians, Ministers,<br />
and Christian Capitalists<br />
4<br />
Melba Joyce<br />
Panelists, Herb Boyd, Terrance<br />
McKnight<br />
Moderator, Felipe Luciano<br />
Many musical innovators called 409<br />
and 555 Edgecombe home: From<br />
Andy Kirk, Jimmie Lunceford, Billy<br />
Strayhorn, Coleman Hawkins, Johnny<br />
Hodges, and Count Basie, through Paul<br />
Robeson, travel the journey with us all<br />
the way through to the era of Cassandra<br />
Wilson. Will also present European<br />
classical music and the contributions<br />
of Henry T. Burleigh and Clarence<br />
Cameron White.<br />
Panelists, Stephen Robinson, MD,<br />
William Seraile, PhD<br />
Moderator, Reverend LaKeesha<br />
Walrond,PhD<br />
From Daddy Grace’s enormous property<br />
holdings, including ownership of 555<br />
Edgecombe Avenue, to the Reverend<br />
James Herman Robinson’s prototype for<br />
an international-aid organization that<br />
grew into the Peace Corps, the influence<br />
of a few of <strong>Sugar</strong> <strong>Hill</strong>’s African-American<br />
ministers will be revealed. This talk will<br />
give an overview of the role religion<br />
played in the activism and activities of the<br />
men of the cloth, who lived at 409 and<br />
555, or who owned the dwellings.<br />
*Columbia University—Barnard College, Africana Studies<br />
Department; Institute for Research on Women, Gender,<br />
and Sexuality; and the Heyman Center for Humanities<br />
(co-sponsors)
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