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Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... (play) The Dance: The History of American Minstrelsy; Deep Azure; Diary of a Mad Black Woman (play) The ...
Anna Lucasta is a 1944 American play by Philip Yordan.Inspired by Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie, the play was originally written about a Polish American family.The American Negro Theatre director Abram Hill and director Harry Wagstaff Gribble adapted the script for an all African American cast, and presented the first performance on June 16, 1944.
This collection explores an array of themes connected to Black American life. Many of the included works contain elements of social criticism and messages of anti-racism. All but one were written in the early 1970s a "a socially and politically dynamic moment in the nation's history and a renaissance decade for black theater." [2]
Black literature is far too expansive to cover in just a month, especially if you look back through history at the works of luminaries like Langston Hughes, Toni Morrison, James Baldwin and Nikki ...
Black Souls is a play in six scenes by Annie Nathan Meyer. The play depicts the lynching of an innocent black man on a college campus and concerns themes of miscegenation and bigotry in the Southern United States in the post World War I era. The work is one of the first "lynching dramas" written by a white woman, and for this reason the play ...
Face Value (play) Fairview (play) Family Devotions; Fires in the Mirror; Fly (play) FOB (play) For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy; A Free Man of Color; Full Frontal (play)
The play received mixed reviews, mainly because of its attempted reach. Said one critic, "[The play] falters a bit in its cathartic stretch, but the work accomplishes something signally important: In recalling a traumatic chapter of African history, it magnifies the biases and conflicts that are inextricably part of the act of remembrance itself."
This year's Black History Month has the theme "African Americans and Labor." The ASALH shares that this theme "focuses on the various and profound ways that work and working of all kinds—free ...