Diary 21: ARE WE WRITING LOUD ENOUGH?
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Diary 21: ARE WE WRITING LOUD ENOUGH?
May 24, 2010
Playwrights from NYC Lab School for Collaborative Learning and Washington Irving High School Performed by the Vineyard Theatre Student Company
At Vineyard Theatre
This hilarious and moving solo show by the inimitable Colman Domingo (PASSING STRANGE, THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS) looks at his life growing up in 1970's West Philadelphia, and his family's relationship to soul music. A BOY AND HIS SOUL was hailed by critics when it premiered at The Vineyard in 2009 as "Theatrical gold!" (NY1), "Wicked, tender, outrageous and profound (Newsday), and the NY Times called Mr. Domingo "a blazingly charismatic performer."
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This woman was an inspiration and we are so thankful for her.
“I said, ‘One day, when I get older, I’m going to find a place and honor the Scottsboro Boys and put this book on a table and burn a candle in their memory,’” she told NPR in 2020.Sheila Washington Dies at 61; Helped Exonerate Scottsboro Boys
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She fought for decades to get their names cleared from an egregious injustice in the Jim Crow South, and created a museum in their honor.
