Writer and actor Kate Taney Billingsley has been thinking a lot about America’s racial history and her family’s part in it. Billingsley’s great-great-great-great uncle was Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney,
This image shows Leland Gantt as Dred Scott during a performance of "American Rot," playing through March 31 at the Ellen Stewart Theatre in New York. (Steven Pisano/Sam Rudy Public
NEW YORK CITY — Writer and actor Kate Taney Billingsley has been thinking a lot about America’s racial history and her family’s part in it. One of her ancestors had