Segregation kept africanamericans out of every other venue. Duke ellington, billie holiday, Louis Armstrong all performed here. You can just imagine it. Than the place shut down in 1968 after the riots and did not open again until the mid90s. Here we are many decades later, and the topic of race and justice in america is just as raw as it has ever been. The gathering was inspired by Tanehisi Coates, who wrote our cover story last month, the case of a black family in the age of mass incarceration. He examined this countrys history of incarceration over the past 50 years and has tried to understand how america has outin carteret did every other country in the world and what it has done to families. Many of the photos illuminated his work on the page. Today, we lift that story to the stage and we will talk honestly about a difficult subject. We will expand the conversation to contemplate the role of the court. We will meet police and learn about life on the front lines. We will explore re
Ok, beautiful. He mentioned that Daniel Patrick moynihan when he wrote the moynihan report, his intentions really were to address the myriad of discrepancies and the divides between black america and White America and he was someone who is very much obsessed with the idea of families. He has looked at families among Irish Catholic communities and employed that approach to africanamerican communities. The report was not authored in father malevolent policy or malevolent investment in africanamerican communities. Daniel Patrick Moynihan was interested in employment programs and all sorts of ways of helping families. Instead, what we got, he was arguing for benevolence and instead what we got was malevolent investment. I think that one of the things that happened and what i argue in the piece is that the society was already angled a certain way. Society already viewed africanamerican families through a particular lens. Aboutereas we often think , in the wake of the 1960s, the state actual
We all know regional theater is in trouble. One of my favorite companies, the Lookingglass Theatre Company, is in the middle of a semi-pause while it assesses how to produce live theater in this new world. But this coming Friday, its Lookingglass Alice will air on PBS.