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Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies. Sylviane A. Diouf, ed. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2003. 242 pp.

Review of Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies, Syviane A. Diouf, ed. This collection of essays by pre-eminent scholars in the West African slave trade controverts perceptions of African complicity with transatlantic slavery.

Michele Lisa Simms-Burton

February 11, 2024

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‘Show Way the Musical’ at Kennedy Center sings of Black familial resilience

The world premiere show is based on Jacqueline Woodson’s children’s book about ancestral matrilineal history, hope, and freedom.

Michele Lisa Simms-Burton

January 30, 2024

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Director and Playwright Psalmayene 24 Discusses 'Native Son' and "Les Deux Noirs'

Psalmayene 24 is the director of 'Native Son' and the writer of 'Les Deux Noirs: Notes on Notes of a Native Son,' which are playing in repertory at Mosaic Theater in April

Michele Lisa Simms-Burton

January 30, 2024

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Review: ‘Les Deux Noirs: Notes on Notes of a Native Son’ at Mosaic Theater Company

Choreographer Tiffany Quinn gets kudos for making hip-hop dance seem possible in post World War Two Paris. Wright chasing Baldwin around the café to assault him ends with Baldwin diving under the table and barking like a dog.

Michele Lisa Simms-Burton

January 30, 2024

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The complete 2020 Helen Hayes Awards and more

A big finale with virtual glam and a reunion of the theater fam.

Michele Lisa Simms-Burton

January 26, 2024

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Theater will have to be less racist to survive: A Q&A with Soyica Colbert

The new associate director at Shakespeare Theatre Company on what a Black canon could look like and why diversifying leadership matters.

Michele Lisa Simms-Burton

January 26, 2024

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Washington National Opera's 'Written in Stone': opera as American as apple pie

The new Washington National Opera work is provocative, sweeping, intriguing, and chockful of some of the best voices and creatives of the 21st century.

Michele Lisa Simms-Burton

January 30, 2024

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Bayard Rustin and James Baldwin: Freedom Fighters & Friends

One man was an enigma and has been buried beneath the annals of the post-Second World War Black civil rights movement.

Michele Lisa Simms-Burton

January 25, 2024

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Dissonance Dance Presents “Black to Silver: A Black LGBT Experience, Sons of Baldwin”

On Saturday, April 11 and Sunday, April 12, 2015, Dissonance Dance staged its latest performance “Black to Silver: A Black LGBT Experience” at Joy of Motion’s Jack Guidone Theater in Washington DC. The performance helps to increase awareness of the African American LGBT community by its display of the complexity of human relations through dance.

Michele Lisa Simms-Burton

January 25, 2024

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Immigrant Narrative, Midwest US, and Interracial Love: “Familiar”?

What do you get when you mix African immigrants from Zimbabwe, Minnesota in the winter, interracial love, sexual repression, and a family secret?

Michele Lisa Simms-Burton

January 25, 2024

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Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies. Sylviane A. Diouf, ed. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2003. 242 pp.

‘Show Way the Musical’ at Kennedy Center sings of Black familial resilience

Director and Playwright Psalmayene 24 Discusses 'Native Son' and "Les Deux Noirs'

Review: ‘Les Deux Noirs: Notes on Notes of a Native Son’ at Mosaic Theater Company

The complete 2020 Helen Hayes Awards and more

Theater will have to be less racist to survive: A Q&A with Soyica Colbert

Washington National Opera's 'Written in Stone': opera as American as apple pie

Bayard Rustin and James Baldwin: Freedom Fighters & Friends

Dissonance Dance Presents “Black to Silver: A Black LGBT Experience, Sons of Baldwin”

Immigrant Narrative, Midwest US, and Interracial Love: “Familiar”?

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