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Iconic playwright August Wilson immortalized with new United States postage stamp

Iconic playwright August Wilson immortalized with new United States postage stamp
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Wanda's Picks for January 2021


Wanda’s Picks for January 2021
Wanda’s Picks for January 2021
January 22, 2021
 
Photographer Alan Kimara Dixon, a longtime participant and documentarian of the Maafa Bay Area Commemoration, is featured in the Maafa@25 art exhibit. 
by Wanda Sabir
Imani, or “Faith,” is the seventh principle of Kwanzaa, or Celebration of First Fruits. Everything starts with belief, and this belief is grounded in Imani, Nia (purpose) and Kujichagulia (self-determination). Once we know our purpose, everything else is possible. 
Kujichagulia is the tenacity we hang onto even when we can’t always see the road around the corner or how far it is to the ground.  ....

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August Wilson's Uncompromising Vision "For Ma Rainey's Black Bottom"


American playwright August Wilson (1945–2005), in New York in 2000
August Wilson had a magnificent ear. His supreme gift as a playwright was for transforming African American vernacular into crystalline poetry onstage. His sense for language was also evident in how he chose to be known. Growing up in the largely Black, poor, and working-class Hill District of Pittsburgh, dreaming of the sort of literary glory enjoyed by his idols Richard Wright and Langston Hughes, the young man must have known that “Frederick Kittel Jr., Great Black Writer” somehow didn’t have the right ring to it. At the age of 20, he rejected being the namesake of his father, a white, German-born, alcoholic baker who was, the playwright would later recall, “a sporadic presence” in his life. “August” was originally his middle name. “Wilson” was the maiden name of his Black mother, Daisy. Put the two together, and you had a moniker exuding steadfast wisdom, a name with gravitas, a name com ....

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A History Of August Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle, Including Fences And Ma Rainey's Black Bottom


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Fences and just watched
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. What’s next? Well, in case you didn’t know, you’ve actually just watched two whole decades worth of the black experience, as these two films make up 20% of the famous playwright, August Wilson’s, Pittsburgh Cycle, which is also known at the Century Cycle.
Back in college, I was obsessed with two playwrights named August, and they were August Strindberg and August Wilson. And while Strindberg definitely messed with my headspace with plays like
Miss Julie and
A Dream Play, it was August Wilson who I actually connected with, which is why I’ve read every play in the Century Cycle. So, I just wanted to give you a little history lesson of each play in chronological order, as well as which actors and actresses might be a good fit to fill in key roles, for the ones that haven t been adapted. Denzel Washington has gone on record saying that he wants to turn every one of these ....

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