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  2. Black Drama Anthology - Wikipedia

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    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."

  3. Category:African-American plays - Wikipedia

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    A Madea Christmas (musical play) Madea Gets a Job; Madea Goes to Jail (play) Madea's Big Happy Family; Madea's Class Reunion; Madea's Family Reunion (play) Marilyn and Ella; The Marriage Counselor; Meet the Browns (play) The Mighty Gents; The Mountaintop; A Movie Star Has To Star in Black and White

  4. Notes from the Field - Wikipedia

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    The play is drawn from more than 200 interviews with students, parents, teachers and administrators caught in the school-to-prison pipeline. [4] Smith (the author/writer of the play) references several real-life events throughout the play, such as the death of Freddie Gray and an incident where a 15-year-old black girl was restrained by police. [5]

  5. Diary of a Mad Black Woman (play) - Wikipedia

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    The stage play was adapted into a motion picture by Lions Gate Entertainment and BET Pictures, and opened on February 25, 2005. The film version of Diary of a Mad Black Woman stars Kimberly Elise , Steve Harris , Shemar Moore , Cicely Tyson and Tyler Perry .

  6. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom - Wikipedia

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    Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is a 1982 play – one of the ten-play Century Cycle by August Wilson – that chronicles the 20th-century African-American experience. The play is set in a recording studio in 1920s Chicago, and deals with issues of race, art, religion, and the historic exploitation of black recording artists by white producers.

  7. A Raisin in the Sun - Wikipedia

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    Hansberry noted that her play introduced details of black life to the overwhelmingly white Broadway audiences, while director Richards observed that it was the first play to which large numbers of black people were drawn. [7] Frank Rich, writing in The New York Times in 1983, stated that A Raisin in the Sun "changed American theater forever". [10]

  8. Rachel (play) - Wikipedia

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    Rachel is a play that was written in 1916 by African American teacher, playwright and poet Angelina Weld Grimké (February 27, 1880 – June 10, 1958). Grimké submitted the play to the Drama Committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). For the first production of the play the program read: "This is the ...

  9. Black Souls (play) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...