The production was the brainchild of local actor Levi Joseph who directed it and played James Baldwin, the distinguished black writer and social critic. Donations collected at the door for the one-time performance benefitted the restoration of the Clinton A.M.E. Zion Church, the same church W.E.B. Du Bois attended as a boy.
This weekend Camille A. Brown and Dancers take to the stage at the Ted Shawn Theatre to present 'BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play,' a piece whose introspective approach to cultural themes through visceral movement and sociopolitical dialogues will not disappoint.
Clinton Church Restoration's immediate goal is raise $100,000 by March 31 to purchase and stabilize the building and begin the process of creating a plan for its use.
“Do you know that most of the poor people in our country are working everyday? They are making wages so low that they cannot begin to function in the mainstream of the economic life of our nation. These are facts which must be seen. And it is criminal to have people working on a full-time basis and a full-time job getting part-time income.”
-- Dr. Martin Luther King, in a speech to Memphis sanitation workers in 1968, just before his assassination.
Berkshire Human Rights speaker Tracie Keesee has devoted her long career in policing to strengthening better ties between the police and minority communities.
NAACP leader and author James Weldon Johnson wrote “God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse,” in a little cabin off Alford Road on the Alford Brook and at the Mason Library.
