OF A PIONEERING BLACK THEATER COMPANY'S FOUNDER WAS REMEMBERED PAST WEEKEND.

MEMBERS OF THE ARTS COMMUNITY GATHERED FOR A MEMORIAL SERVICE TO HONOR VAL GRAY WARD WHO DIED EARLIER THIS YEAR.

SHE FOUNDED CUBA THEATER, A WELL-KNOWN THEATER COMPANY THAT WAS PART OF THE BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT IN CHICAGO.

WE CAUGHT UP WITH HER SON TO TALK ABOUT HER LEGACY AHEAD OF THAT EVENT.

>> DATA COMPANY FORMED 1968, HAD HOW ADD THAT THE NEED TO TO THE COMPANY BELIEVED A CAUSE WE BUILD A BETTER ENVIRONMENT FOR OUR COMMUNITY.

>> THE 1968.

>> WE TOO.

>> KNOW WE LEAD.

>> WELL KNOWN COMPANY, BUT THE FIRST BLACK EQUITY COMPANY.

>> AND >> IT'S IN WE KNOW WE'VE BEEN FORMED IN JAPAN AND MONTREAL, CANADA, AFRICA.

>> ALL MAJOR UNIVERSITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND MADE BE IT INITIALLY MY MOTHER WOULD WANT COUNTING BOARD OBT A THEATER AS WELL IF YOU COMING BACK AFTER THAT PRESENT MEMORY STROLLING 47TH STREET.

>> THE >> NAME OF THE HIGHLIGHTED WHAT FLOYD IS AND THE SOUTH THAT WOULD LIKE IN ITS HEYDAY.

21 AND NOW.

>> INTERNATIONALLY OVER AND HAS SOME OF THE FIGHT ENEMY.

DID BEN?

>> THAT THE WORLD EVER LIKE YOU GOING TO?

LET HE WAS SUPPOSED TO GIVE ALL I KNOW IS MEANT.

>> TO THE UNIVERSITY ILLINOIS TO THE AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDENT UNION.

>> BECAUSE YOU HAVE BEEN THE FIRST BLACK STUDENT UNION IN THE YEARS.

THE ILLINOIS, THEY WERE GIVEN HER AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT BECAUSE THEY BUILD A NEW BUILDING.

ARE NO THAT HAD IT NOT BEEN THAT MEAN THAT HAVE BEEN A NEW