New Year’s Eve included The Scottsboro Boys by SpeakEasy Stage at Boston Center for the Arts. Scottsboro was written by John Kander and Fred Ebb, the same team who created Cabaret and Chicago. This was a terrific production, funny at…
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The Scottsboro Boys at SpeakEasy
Tagged with: musicals, race in literature, Speakeasy Theater, The Scottsboro Boys, theater
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ArtsEmerson: Public Dialogues
WED, NOV 4 @ 7PM Paramount TheatreInterrogating Whiteness (Part 1)Moderated by Future Boston AllianceFeaturing Walter Mosley, American novelist and recipient of the PEN America’s Lifetime Achievement AwardAfter the death of Trayvon Martin, Walter Mosley wrote in Newsweek, “If we can see…
Tagged with: ArtsEmerson, books, literary creation, Paramount Theater, race in literature, Walter Mosley
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Numbers Talk! The 2014 VIDA Count | VIDA: Women in Literary Arts
The 2014 VIDA Count | VIDA: Women in Literary Arts.
Tagged with: books, Literary journals, Literary Magazines, race in literature, women, women's work, writing
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This was terrific! So glad I got to see it. A skewering of racial stereotypes in the Huntington’s ‘Colored Museum’ – Theater & art – The Boston Globe
A skewering of racial stereotypes in the Huntington’s ‘Colored Museum’ – Theater & art – The Boston Globe.
Tagged with: Billy Porter, Boston, drama, George C. Wolfe, Huntington Theatre, race in literature, The Colored Museum
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Beautiful: Watch the doodle. Langston Hughes: Poet who wrote I Dream A World given Google doodle The Independent
Langston Hughes: This is why poet who wrote I Dream A World has been given a Google doodle – News – Gadgets and Tech – The Independent.
Tagged with: Langston Hughes, literary history, poetry, race in literature
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If White Characters Were Described Like People Of Color In Literature
If White Characters Were Described Like People Of Color In Literature.
Tagged with: food as skin color, people of color, race, race in literature, white characters
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