Another Circle Completes for The Mason

The story of the USS Mason has been typified by circles. Circles of completion as their story finally gets told. From the ship's commissioning in Boston to a 1995 reunion ... African American World War II veteran Ossie Davis portraying a veteran in Proud ... Fashion Icon Tommy Hilfiger financing a film about Lorenzo DuFau who worked in New York's Garment District in his first job out of the Navy ...

The Men of the Mason, like all sailors, loved liberty (time off the ship.) And can you imagine a better place to take liberty than at the Apollo Theater in Harlem in 1944 or 1945?

And now, all these years later, another Mason circle completes as the Apollo hosts Proud on August 2nd as part of the Second Annual Hollywood in Harlem Film Festival.

Apollo Theater Photo Credit: Apollo Theater