Joe Clair, entertainer and health advocate, visited Syracuse with the Rap It Up Campaign.
Comedian, actor and former VJ Joe Clair (aka Cleezy) brought humor and but also a generous dose of reality to the Southwest Community Center in Syracuse yesterday during the Rap It Up event. He talked about a family member being HIV positive and having to take 30 pills a day for the past 20 years to maintain. At the same time he said, those same medicines can do damage to the body.
Rap It Up Event Panel
As a moderator a panel that included Onondaga County Health Commissioner Dr. Cynthia Morrow, adolescent health specialist Dr. Jeri Dyson and singer Sammie, Clair kept it real by enlightening and entertaining the crowd, young and old, with sobering statistics and the need for prevention of sexually-transmitted diseases.
“Some of these disease do not have symptoms,” Clair said. “That’s why you need to get tested.”
Below hear Dr. Dyson talk about diseases that do not go away.
Here are some photographs from Saturday’s A Night at the Museum, a fashion show produced and directed by students at Syracuse University.
The show featured collections from Papaya Clothing, Real NY, Boom Babies, Collar Candy, Kreemo as well as pieces by designers Dejuan Hightower (representing Downstate), Kim, Kid Dangerous, and Bilaya Jackson (representing Upstate). Several students also presented their work on the runway.
Before the Fashion’s Conscience A Night at the Museum show on Saturday, we caught up with Ike Styles (aka Issac Boakye), a designer of the RareNY Label. He resides in the Bronx, NY but at one time was a student at OCC.
“I will bless the Lord at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.” Psalm 34:1
BCCE with Kirk Franklin
The legendary gospel collective known as the Black Celestial Choral Ensemble, or BCCE, celebrates its 35th anniversary this weekend. The BCCE will perform a concert on Saturday in Hendricks Chapel that will include an alumni section as well as guest directors.
Here is a small collection of photographs that have appeared on the SIF site in the past seven years or so from their various annointed performances.
BCCE at the Cora Thomas Gospel Extravaganza
BCCE at Hendricks Chapel
We got a chance to speak with BCCE Director Byron Canada before the concert, and he talked about the history of the group and the significance of this particular anniversary.
Here are a few photographs from the Second Annual Syracuse Air Guitar Competition, prostate which was held at The Red House on Saturday night. The champion, cialis Brianna Ruth, click will be moving on to the regional competition.
