Double Bill: Your Negro Tour Guide / I Shall Not Be Moved at Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati

Your Negro Tour Guide draws heavily from columns and National Public Radio commentaries collected in Kathy Y. Wilsons book, Your Negro Tour Guide: Truths in Black & White based on her former CityBeat column. Throwing a glaring light on misguided notions of natural black beauty, black homophobia, intra-racial bigotry, and other cultural stereotypes, this play allows us, once and for all, to laugh at every secret weve held against and sideways glance weve cast at The Other, whoever she happens to be. I Shall Not Be Moved is a one-woman show that thrillingly recounts the story of playwright Isaiah Reaves grandmother, nationally recognized Civil Rights pioneer Betty Daniels Rosemond and her beautiful, horrifying, and trailblazing journey through the American South as one of the first Freedom Riders during the 1960s. Audiences far and wide will experience the internal conflicts and joys of a dark-skinned Black womans fearless battle for equity and equality.