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Playwright, Storyteller, and Critical Educator: An Interview with Rachel Maddox

December 6, 2019November 30, 2019 J. T. Roane art, Black Queer Identity, Black Queers, education, LGBT, theater

In today’s post, senior editor J.T. Roane interviews, Rachel Maddox who is a Black, non-binary playwright, teaching artist, and critical educator based

Teaching While White

November 13, 2019November 13, 2019 Alice Reagan #WorkingtheBlackDiaspora, African Diaspora, education, pedagogy, race, teaching, theater

*This post is part of our online forum organized by Drs. Charisse Burden-Stelly and Crystal Moten titled “Researching, Teaching, and Embodying

Black Queer Theater as Love Praxis: An Interview with Jeremy O’Brian

May 28, 2019May 25, 2019 J. T. Roane art, Black church, black feminism, black politics, interview, LGBT, religion, theater

In today’s post, senior editor J.T. Roane interviews, Jeremy O’Brian who is currently a Teaching Fellow at The New School’s

Remembering John O’Neal and the Free Southern Theater

March 25, 2019August 12, 2022 Erik Wallenberg Activism, black intellectual history, black politics, Resistance, theater

John O’Neal, the co-founder of the Free Southern Theater (FST)–one of the cultural arms of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)–has

Civil Rights Playwrights as Black Intellectuals

November 25, 2017November 28, 2017 Julie Burrell civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, Harold Cruse, theater

In the Society for U.S. Intellectual History’s recent roundtable on Harold Cruse’s The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, contributors reaffirmed the significance of