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This evening performance and talkback of meet james for an exciting original play commissioned from playwright me excited to welcome you to this evening performance and talkback of meet james forten, a play commissioned by Marissa Kennedy for the museum. Khalil williams, who im joined by is the founder of black history maven, a longtime collaborator with the museum and our living history projects, and diversify history initiative. And performance, im going to vacate my seat, give it up to to michael idriss, who is the museums African American interpretive, fellow lifelong philadelphian. Hes the brains behind the play that youre going to, see the historic advise around this piece. Written by Marissa Kennedy, which you will see performed by nathan alfordtate. Really excited to be doing a lot with james forten story, not right now when you can visit this cool painting that youll hear more about later. But also in the future, we have exciting programming and exhibitions about the forten fa

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