Benefit to Help Patients With Sickle Cell Disease
Activist and comedian Dick Gregory, satirist Paul Mooney and the Mooney Twins will perform at 8 p.m. tonight at Marla Gibb’s Vision Theater, 3341 W. 43rd Place, Leimert Park.
The benefit will raise funds to buy a hemp oil press used to produce hempseed oil for use by sickle cell disease patients.
Advance tickets are $20 and $50. Information: (213) 293-7552.
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