WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 7pm – DRAMA – $10 Cover
No Gang War in ‘74
BACKGROUND
No Gang War in ‘74 is a play with a professional cast and music, based on a book written by Stephen C. Satell, which tells important Philadelphia history that starts with the Black Power conference in 1968. Frankee Davenport, a promoter and widow with six boys, attended the Conference and then started the Umoja National Magazine. She wanted to promote the things about black and African culture that were not represented in the media. She conducted meetings at her house with other professionals on Sundays.
A fiery younger man came by the house and said he was busy studying economics but he would like to help. Frankee found him intimidating, but then realized he got things done. His name was David and he had a way of capturing all of her sons’ attention. Several months later they were married and they changed their name to Fattah which means “beloved revealer.” Frankee also changed her first name to Falaka which means light. She had been named Mary Ellen after her relative, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, a famous writer, who died twenty year’s before Frankee’s birth.