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‘Dream Life of Malcolm X’ heightens the debate about who has the right to tell which story
Though Wilkins identifies as African American, he is white-passing enough to not get followed at the grocery store. Lily Janiak and Morayo Ogunbayo July 23, 2021Updated: July 23, 2021, 2:58 pm
Oakland playwright John Wilkins wrote “The Dream Life of Malcolm X,” whose Oakland Theater Project production runs Aug. 6-Sept. 5. Photo: Brontë Wittpenn / The Chronicle
Oakland theater artist and critic John Wilkins has been asked about his race his whole life.
A barista might ask when he’s buying an espresso. Or a student during one of his classes in the Writing and Literature program at California College of the Arts. And recently, when he presented excerpts from his new show, “The Dream Life of Malcolm X,” an Oakland Theater Project board member asked if he had another “secret life.”