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On July 7, 2006, "Professor Charles David Brooks III Day" was proclaimed in Hartsville, SC.

Benedict College performance links Hurricane Katrina, slavery (November 20, 2005 Article)

Benedict College performance links Hurricane Katrina, slavery (November 20, 2005 WIS-TV Article)

On June 30, 2005, "Professor Charles David Brooks III Day" was proclaimed in Hartsville, SC.

On February 18, 2005, the CDBIII Players visited Spring Valley High School to share their vision and mission as Benedict College students and faculty as well as passion for theater in presentation.

On February 16, 2005, the CDBIII Players visited the Willow Lane Campus of the South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice to share their purpose, vision, and mission with 150 incarcerated juveniles.

Play: "AFFAIRS" by Charles David Brooks, III, written and directed by Charles David Brooks, III with music composed by Sean Daniels was held in March 2004 in the Benedict College Little Theatre.

Review of Brooks Play
AFFAIRS
of our ancestors

A RITUALIZED DRAMA
by
Charles Reams

Professor Charles Brooks has a knack for combining images of ancestral spirits with the hopes and aspirations of his people, our people. His new play "Affairs" amply displays this gift. "Affairs" is an out growth spiritually of Brooks previous musico-dramatico "Our Lives Our Voices Our Music."  Let the play begin.

Dim lights, the silhouettes of slender bodies in rhythmic movement, the cadence of male and female dancers and musicians traversing the octave scale, skipping about from one hemisphere of the cerebral cortex to the other with telling effect.  These images are indeed of our ancestors. The dance and muse resonates, touching a nerve.

Suddenly, we are back in Nubia and Egypt, traveling the Nile on slender ships that glide through quiet waters like a knife.   We see the splendor of ancient empires and walk with kings.

The characters continue our voyage through time to the present.  The voices of Akhenaton, Imhotep, Nefertiti, Nzinga, Affonso I, Makeda, Askia Toure, Candace, Hannibal, Dahia-Al-Kahina, and Behanzin Hossu Bowelle and student leaders speak to a floundering people.  You are not to lie and wait for help; you are to get up and help yourselves, not as chickens but as eagles.  Flap your pinions and soar to the sun.  Prepare yourself.  Tap your potential. Achieve.   These are messages from "Affairs," of our ancestors.

The link to the past is the bridge to the future all we have to do is set our sights on higher goals and achieve them, Brooks exclaims.  Keep the faith of forefathers.  Feel the force.  Soar.  This play by Professor Charles Brooks takes you there.  Catch the play.  Relive the past.  Experience the present through different eyes.  Reach for a brighter tomorrow.

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