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  2. 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

  3. Negro Ensemble Company - Wikipedia

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    A Soldier's Play by Charles Fuller is the story of the murder of a black soldier on a Southern army base during World War II, and the subsequent investigation by a black army captain. It examines black pride and black self-hatred, and won both the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle Best Play awards.

  4. African-American musical theater - Wikipedia

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    The creators of the astronomical point in history are The Dixie Duo, Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake, who met at a party in Baltimore, Maryland in 1915. Their career was brief but successful. "Shuffle Along was a milestone in the development of the black musical, and it became the model by which all black musicals were judged until well into the ...

  5. 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." [2]

  6. William Alexander Brown - Wikipedia

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    It was not until after the American Civil War that all-Black theatre companies began to emerge again. [3] The African Theatre presented a programme of classical plays, popular plays, ballet, music and opera. [5] The theater produced Shakespearean works, as well as plays written by Brown. [6] Brown also wrote a number of original plays for them ...

  7. 19 Black figures who changed history - AOL

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    Obama became the first Black president in American history after winning the 2008 election race against John McCain. While in office, he earned a Nobel Peace Prize, worked to limit climate change ...

  8. The Black Hermit - Wikipedia

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    The Black Hermit was the first play by the Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, and the first published East African play in English. [1] The travelling theatre of Makerere College was the first to produce the play, [2] putting it on in honour of Ugandan independence at the Ugandan National Theatre in Kampala in November 1962.

  9. Guildhall drama school report exposes ‘structural racism ...

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    Black students at Guildhall School of Music and Drama were called the N-word and were ‘suppressed’ by white tutors, new report reveals