Brenda Tate walked past August Wilson’s childhood home many times. She said she lived next door to the famous Pittsburgh playwright while growing up in the Hill District. When she heard the news of his home being preserved and transformed into an arts center, she was thrilled. “This is amazing,”
Playwright with Minnesota ties honored as latest stamp in Black Heritage series article
August Wilson, the famed playwright, is the face of the latest stamp in the U.S. Postal Service s Black Heritage series.
(FOX 9) - The U.S. Postal Service is honoring an award-winning playwright with Minnesota ties.
The late August Wilson is the face of a new stamp the 44th in the Black Heritage series. The postal service recently held a virtual dedication ceremony before the big reveal.
Black Heritage postage stamp honoring August Wilson now available
A Black Heritage postage stamp honoring August Wilson is now available.
August Wilson Will Be Honored With a Commemorative Forever Stamp
Playwright August Wilson will be honored with a commemorative Forever stamp next year.
The stamp will be dedicated Jan. 28 on the Postal Service Facebook and Twitter pages. For more information, visit usps.com/blackheritage-augustwilson.
Customers may preorder and purchase stamps and other products through the Postal Store at usps.com/shopstamps, by calling 800-STAMP24 (800-782-6724), by mail through USA Philatelic, or at Post Office locations nationwide.
In the late 1960s, at the threshold of the Black Arts Movement, Wilson joined a group of poets, educators, and artists who formed the Centre Avenue Poets Theater Workshop. Wilson met friend and collaborator, Rob Penny, through this group, and in 1968, they co-founded the Black Horizon Theater, a community-based, Black Nationalist Theater Company in the Hill District of Pittsburgh.