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Program Director. Artist, Motivational Speaker, Promoter, Host, Artist Management, Jefe. (TheBoss) 💯

12/25/2025
12/25/2025

And A Happy New Year 🎊

FUNNY FRIDAY IN FLORENCE 12/15/2025

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FUNNY FRIDAY IN FLORENCE Get ready to laugh your heart out at Funny Friday in Florence—comedy, drinks, and good vibes all night!

12/09/2025

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Get Ready to Laugh till yo cheek bones hurt! 😂 Conedy Is Back in the City! Happy Holidays!
Come Check out some of the funniest people on da Planet! Friday Night December 19th! JANET DOLLAR is Back! 🔥🤣
With Def Comedy Jams! KOOL BUBBA ICE🤣 and Funnyman ACE BROWN. Doors open 8pm Shows starts at 9!
DONT MISS THIS SHOW!

11/29/2025

We’ve all been going through tough times. 😔.Loosing our loved ones, jobs, homes, etc…
Time For a Little Fun And laughter 😆 for the Holidays!

11/22/2025

In the summer of 1959, deep in Arkansas, a horror unfolded at the Negro Boys Industrial School in Wrightsville. Inside a dormitory packed with 69 Black teenage boys — aged 13 to 17 — the doors were locked from the outside as the boys slept. That night a fire raged through the building, claiming 21 young lives, the worst fire disaster in Arkansas history.

These weren’t hardened criminals. Many were orphans, homeless, or simply kids sent away for small mistakes. One 13-year-old boy, William Piggee, had been committed because he rode a white boy’s bicycle — a harmless act his mother said was okay, but the system did not.

When the flames died down, 48 boys survived — but only by clawing through metal mesh windows, tearing at their cages with bare hands, fighting for air, fighting for life.

The morning after, workers tore through the building with hoses, shovels, and rakes, dismantling the dorm as though someone were trying to erase what happened. Survivors and families, like witness Frank Lawrence whose brother died, watched in horror.

“They were tearing it apart like they were trying to cover up something.”

A grand jury reviewed the case, pointing fingers at school officials, agencies, and the institution’s leadership — yet no one was ever criminally charged.

Among the boys lost were:
Lindsey Cross, 14
Charles L. Thomas, 15
Frank Barnes, 15
R. D. Brown, 16
Jessie Carpenter Jr., 16
Joe Crittenden, 16

And young William Piggee, just 13.

Each name held a future. Each boy deserved a chance. Each one was locked away and forgotten.

More than six decades later, the Wrightsville tragedy reminds us of deep racial injustice, institutional neglect, and lives discarded when they mattered most. These boys didn’t just die in a fire — they died because the system locked them in, locked them away, and locked out justice.

Their death demands more than condolences.
It demands action.
It demands that we remember.

Because if their story is buried, then the truth behind their suffering is buried too — and how many more are hidden in dusty archives, nameless, unclaimed?

Let us not let them disappear.
Let us keep their names alive.
Because remembering is the first step toward justice.

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