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Text: SPORTINGTHE TRADmONAL LOOK: BSU fashion show, 'Journey form the Motherland,' featured traditional African
garb, hke above.

BSU journeys back to 'Motherland'
Fashion, cultural show enraptures sold-out crowd
EVERISTE AMBRIS
Spectrum Staff Reporter

Theatrical performance and
entertainment was in high gear at
the Katharine Cornell Theatre
Sunday night for the Black Students Union's annual cultural and
fashion show.
This year's theme, "A Journey
from the Motherland," gathered
black talents from UB and as far
as Rochester, where a young
group of five males engaged in an
a cappella from Boyz II Men.
They had the crowd screaming
for more.
Ramona Gore, who has hosted
many of the BSU's cultural

events for years, did an excep
tional job in this year's show.
The UB Gospel Choir's introduc
tion song was the Negro National
Anthem, composed by James
Weldon Johnson.
Exploding audience
Jazz, another remnant of
African American culture, per
vaded the theater, as the Cats of
the Johnson Family Quartet
played for the capacity crowd.
The Cats accompanied Amber
Singletary as she sang, "My
funny Valentine." Marcia Wright
followed with "Casanova
Brown."
Members of the audience
exploded joyously as a "blast

from the past" was featured . Sev
enties' fashions and dance were
featured . Students in this troupe
recaptured memories in their
"funky"