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Others, Aturning with copies of our through envy and dismay knock first issue, I reflected on several oc each other and as a result some ideas casions-some apparent and some never bloom. unwarranted. As a new publisher, Hence, we are about being better trying to achieve credibility can be people and helping each other hard. To friends, associates and achieve and survive. There is a need others who can share their expertise for ROUTES and we intend to fill in assisting you, your idea seems the void. Our hope is that in doing senseless and should be abandoned. our best, we help others get ahead as As I look over my shoulder at the well. It was during our efforts to copies, I see a dream come true-a launch ROUTES that we discovered dream that others wanted deferred. unwarranted opposition. But in I, therefore, say to others what I am keeping with our determination and saying now, and what my reflections perseverance we pushed on. deem. It is a shame that people with In retrospect, our wish is to be able new ideas are thwarted and stepped to convey to the doubters that en upon and not encouraged to con couragement does go much further tinue. We should be than apathy. We about helping each say thanks to the other get ahead and modern few and ap promoting independ plause to the shak ent aspirations.Other er-upers. Through races and nationalit your faith, our re ies have thousands of ality has become success stories be - more apparent. cause of their abil- PUBLISHER ROUTES, A Guide to Black Entertainment, November 1977 3 r-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------Between Our Covers --------- hanksgiving is upon us and life, there is hope. " And in recogni choices at your fingertips. There are no matter the religious under tion of that there should be opportunites to explore the untried, T standing or the lack of it, we thanksgiving. discover people, places , and things, pause however briefl y, to be thank We cannot be satisfied though to and be moved by performances that ful and relish our ability to survive. let thanksgiving be an excercise of will never be dup)jcated. It is indeed Too often we are c aught in the only the mind. Although the day of the "social season", and if New whirlpool created by day to day li v Thanksgiving is most probably spent York is in summer a festival, in ing and forget to respond to the sim as one of family participation and re winter it is a brilliant kaleidoscope of ple elements of life. We are so beset laxation , it is not a passive event. amazement and wonder. by the personal and universal in Surrounded by the security of fam ROUTES is the medium for iquities of life until when righteous ily, no matter how large or small, finding out what to do and where to ness, good, or joy come along, we and friends, no matter how few or go. And we invite you to gaze into see it in a meager relationship. It is a many , we are still celebrating life this kaleidoscope we call the " Big disservice to ourselves as individu and Thanksgiving for that life. We Apple" by way of our pages and als, to mankind in its entirety, and are doing more than just thinking choose from that spectrum those all communities in between to which about it. colors that will complement your we belong to allow this to happen. Between our covers you will find celebration of Thanksgiving. To approach life apatheti cally is an the spirit of life expressed in differ affront to it and the source from ent terms. 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Tucker 23 A Look at Black Classicism: Grant Associates/ oes•gn Consultants Dance Theatre of Harlem Peter Bailey 29 W.P.A. Willie Walton Editorial Staff Ava R. Fuller 32 Xmas Is Not a Four-Letter Word Agnes 0. Bunn Travel 37 Richard Pryor: Flying High Howard Brock Garland Willie Walton D1n1ng 38 Watch Your Mouth Howard Brock Garland Peter Bailey 42 What Is a Hockey Puck? Marlene Chavis Theater Marlene Chavis Sports DEPARTMENTS Donald F. Driver Arts 3 Publisher's Page Dr. William B. Ellis 4 Between Our Covers Kids Kenneth Sweeney 7 Highlights Free For All 17 Free For All Howard Brock Garland Media 40 Apple Roots Writers-Researchers 46 Routes Roots Teri Washington Gwendolyn Goodwin LISTINGS Huston Owens 11 Art/Museums/Lectures Wayne Williams 14 Travel Tips Robert Toomer, Jr. 21 Music Beverl y Lindsay 27 Theater Morris Perry Hilda Clarke 31 Dining/Disco Felicia Daniels 35 Kids Adm~n 1stra t1ve Assistant 39 Media RAD Publishing Co. 45 Sports page 46 Ronald Bunn President and CEO Dav1d Vaughn V1ce President Agnes 0 Bunn Secretary Robert Toomer, Jr. Treasurer Henry 0 Coston Dnector Barbara Hanks Administrative Assistant Curtis Henderson C•rculat•on Manager Volume t , Number 2, c by RAD Publishing. Inc. 1977. ROUTES is published monthly at 4310 Kissena Blvd., Flushing , N.Y . 11355. Subscription Office-Box 767, Flushing, N.Y. 11352. Editorial and Circulation Headquarters-230 West 41 st St. , N.Y., NY. 10036. Telephone (212) 840·7290. 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