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African-American playwright August Wilson honored on 'forever' stamp – People's World


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The 44th stamp in the Black Heritage series honors playwright August Wilson (April 27, 1945-October 2, 2005), the “the theater’s poet of Black America,” who brought fresh perspectives and previously unheard voices to the American stage.
The stamp features an oil painting of Wilson based on a 2005 photograph. Behind Wilson, a picket fence alludes to the title of
Fences, one of his best-known plays. Eerily, the way the fence is depicted recalls Ku Klux Klan hoods with eyeholes, a subtle reminder that peering over his shoulder, and over the shoulders of every Black American in particular but truly over the entire nation, is the violent history of enslavement and Jim Crow from 1619 onward. ....

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