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A newly filed police affidavit has revealed details of an ongoing feud between a slain University of Colorado student and a murder suspect who made his initial court appearance on Friday.
AUDITIONS: Barbecue Auditions for Blackfriars production of Barbecue. Seeking 5 white actors and 5 black actors (ages 30s-60s). Open auditions for all - no preparation needed - auditions will consist of cold reads from the script. Directed by David Shakes, in partnership with The Bronze Collective. Details here.
The Bronze Collective Theatre Festival puts plays by Black artists front and center.
PHOTO BY MAX SCHULTE Historic interpreters engaged in an old process of cheese-making, in an 1830s farmhouse kitchen at Genesee Country Village & Museum. It is a breezy, sunny spring day in the hamlet of Mumford on the western edge of Monroe County, and two women in well-worn dresses, dirty aprons, and white bonnets are at work in a farmhouse kitchen. An open door helps cool air circulate around a wood fire oven that’s belching heat into the tiny room. One w...
Smoke billowing over Tulsa, Oklahoma, during the 1921 massacre. The Greenwood District, a thriving business community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, built by Black Americans, was known as Black Wall Street. But the success story became a horror story when mobs of white residents attacked the district and killed many of its workers and inhabitants. The terror, which spanned two days in 1921, was captured years later by Rochester playwright Debra Washington. “Come on AJ, you know as well as I do white folks ain’t happy with what they see going on in Greenwood. A lot of them white folk come...