American Negroes

Sunday Morning Michael Dale: LBJ, The CIA and Eartha Kitt

A recreation of Eartha Kitt's brief speech at a White House event is the thrilling dramatic centerpiece of playwright/performer Dierdra McDowell's excellent solo play, Down To Eartha.

New Historical Novel is Released

In the Jim Crow South of the early 1900s, the Ku Klux Klan terrorized American Negroes with death threats and lynchings.

BWW Reviews: An interesting Tale of Truth or Fiction - KNOCK ME KISS at Ensemble

The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement which spanned the period from about 1919 to 1929. It was the literary era when members of the Great African American Migration, Negroes who had moved into the U.S. Northeast and Midwest, asserted themselves in art, poetry, literature and theatre. Participants included James Wendell Johnson, Cleveland's Langston Hughes, and Countee Cullen.