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Friends of the Negro Spirituals presents: There’s a Bright Side Some Where - A Juneteeth Community Sing featuring guests: Wendell Brooks, who will lead the sing-a-long, is a song leader; vocal music and history instructor at Berkeley High School, professional Baritone soloist; slave documents scholar, and a Negro Spirituals expert; Dr. Martin C. Jones, tenor saxophonist and reentry program specialist for incarcerated persons, will give demonstrations of a form of the oral tradition, the musical cries of street peddlers selling their products in post slavery years heard the street of his native New Orleans; Sam Edwards, therapist and co-founder of FNS; Harold Jackson III, director of “BURN: The Evolution Of An American City,” about a little known but worse recorded race riot in American History: Tulsa Oklahoma Race Riot of 1921 premiering on the Documentary Channel, June 28, 2011, 8 PM (PT/ET), salt2light.com; Risk This at Cutting Ball present: TENDERLOIN by Annie Elias, June 24-25, cast and theatre co-founder