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Nov 19, 2022

MOTHER, ACTOR, NOUN or VERB; WHO CONTROLS THE MEANS Of PRODUCTION.

This essay was intended to be published before the opening of A Raisin in Sun This fall I have the privilege of returning to the New York stage as an actor in Lorraine Hansberry’s classic A RAISIN IN THE SUN. This is only the fourth professional production in New York…

Motherhood

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MOTHER, ACTOR, NOUN or VERB; WHO CONTROLS THE MEANS Of PRODUCTION.
MOTHER, ACTOR, NOUN or VERB; WHO CONTROLS THE MEANS Of PRODUCTION.
Motherhood

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·Nov 12, 2022

Open Letter To Jesse Green of the New York Times

An Apologia Pro Vita Lena Younger Dear Jesse , I have a fond memory of speaking with you in 2003 and of the generous profile you wrote about me for the New York Times on the Broadway transfer of Caroline of Change from THE PUBLIC THEATER. I credit that profile for the publication…

Theater

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Open Letter To Jesse Green of the New York Times
Open Letter To Jesse Green of the New York Times
Theater

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Nov 11, 2020

The Slur of White Identity

September 12th at 5:00am in Seoul, Korea I listened to my brilliant, mentor, teacher, friend plead her humanity to a Police officer on the phone. I screamed through the Zoom screen, “STOP TALKING! GET OFF THE PHONE, DON’T GO TO THE DOOR, DON’T GO OUTSIDE, HANG UP!!!” The bile rose in…

Race

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The Slur of White Identity
The Slur of White Identity
Race

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Oct 11, 2020

The movie GET OUT is the metaphor of American Culture. We’ve been Red Pilled.

I love the movie GET OUT. I laughed so hard through out. The British man I was dating at the time didn’t laugh at all. He thought it was terrifying. Why such different reactions? I’ve thought a lot about, all the ways the the movie GET OUT resonated with so…

Get Out

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The movie GET OUT is the metaphor of American Culture. We’ve been Red Pilled.
The movie GET OUT is the metaphor of American Culture. We’ve been Red Pilled.
Get Out

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Jul 17, 2020

“Becky & Karen” making the world a living hell for BIPOC people since 1619

Black women are intimately familiar with “Becky” and “Karen.” White women who on the low end of the spectrum treat us as invisible and on…

Race

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“Becky & Karen” making the world a living hell for BIPOC people since 1619
“Becky & Karen” making the world a living hell for BIPOC people since 1619
Race

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Jul 10, 2020

Why I am Fed Up with Performative Activism from White and Black Theater Makers

2020 gifted us the perfect storm to herald the winds of societal change. First, a global pandemic, which was an emergency until it was discovered to be killing primarily Black people. Second, the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, hunted down like a deer by the McMichaels in Georgia. Then on the…

Performative Activism

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Why I am Fed Up with Performative Activism from White and Black Theater Makers
Why I am Fed Up with Performative Activism from White and Black Theater Makers
Performative Activism

25 min read

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Tonya Pinkins

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