#blackplaywrights — Public Fediverse posts

Mustapha Matura (17 December 1939 – 29 October 2019)

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Anthony Dwain Lee (July 17, 1961 – October 28, 2000)

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Edward Archibald Markham (1 October 1939 – 23 March 2008)

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"Pretending to be Mexican, Native or South Asian helped Black Americans AVOID Jim Crow laws

Langston hughes passed as Mexican to avoid Jim Crow"

@PJenkins1931

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John Agard FRSL (born 21 June 1949) is a Guyanese playwright, poet and children's writer, now living in Britain. In 2012, he was selected for the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. He was awarded BookTrust's Lifetime Achievement Award in November 2021.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Agard

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"Urban renewal means negro removal"

- James Baldwin

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Is Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins the best playwright in America?
"He is stepping into a new phase in his career -— winning a Pulitzer Prize and maybe a second Tony while writing the Prince musical “Purple."  By Naveen Kumar
https://archive.ph/KkOoi
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August Wilson (né Frederick August Kittel Jr.; April 27, 1945 – October 2, 2005) was an American playwright. He has been referred to as the "theater's poet of Black America". He is best known for a series of 10 plays, collectively called The Pittsburgh Cycle

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Michael John Abbensetts (8 June 1938 – 24 November 2016) was a Guyana-born [british] writer who settled in [england] in the 1960s. He had been described as "the best Black playwright

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