Black American women currently have more political power than ever in the history of this country. We’ve seen the first Black female Supreme Court Justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson and sworn in the first Black and Asian American female Vice President, Kamala Harris. There are 28 Black women in congressional seats that “We the People” elected, […]

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Suzan-Lori Parks is one of this generation’s most defining voices in stage and theater. The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Top Dog/Under Dog is back on stage yet again with a new work, this one connected to a musical icon. Parks is behind the musical adaption of The Harder They Come, based on the 1973 movie […]

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“There’s someone out in the cold; watching, waiting, wanting to get in. They see the lovers, the friends, the toasts, the connection; still, no one ever sees them. They’ll take what they need from the other side, but it’s only to survive,” read the show notes for designer Maxwell Osborne’s second collection as a solo […]

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