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For its Black History Month season opener, the venerable M Ensemble Company is giving a new generation of patrons a chance to experience a true piece of American theater history
These Black theater companies across the nation are back on stage to produce theater and art that speaks to the African-American experience.
Hartford-based investment management firm Bradley, Foster & Sargent (BFS) brought in new leadership and additional staff in the past two years as the portfolios it manages ballooned to more than $6 billion. A handful of majority shareholders also allowed management and longtime staff to buy greater portions of the company to ensure loyalty and longevity. Company leaders say the maneuvers are part of a “BFS 2.0” strategy shift, intended to prepare the 27-year-old firm for the coming two decades as founders and other leaders age into retirement.
Douglas Turner Ward He won a Tony Award while also directing and starring in 'The River Niger' in the '70s. Douglas Turner Ward, a Tony-winning playwright, director and actor who co-founded New York's trailblazing Negro Ensemble Company, has died. He was 90. Ward, inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame in 1996, died Saturday at his home in Manhattan, his wife, Diana Ward, told Energized by the success of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun and with help from a Ford Foundation grant, Ward, actor Robert Hooks and theater manager Gerald Krone officially launched the Negro Ensemble Company...
(Mario Anzuoni/Reuters) Her new fans use race to deny her artistry and exceptionalism. The late Cicely Tyson is getting the Chadwick Boseman treatment. Mainstream media bow to her memory with overstated obits and one piddling night of two films on Turner Classic Movies. All this, pretending to respect the artistry of her 60-year-plus career, simply in order to make Tyson an exemplar of Black Lives Matter significance. Advertisement Dark, lovely, and clearly intelligent, Tyson was certainly an extraordinary figure during the late 20th century, but like other black American perfor...