
Janet League
1940 (85 лет)To Be Young, Gifted and Black: The World of Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words
Gene Frankel
Rita Gardner, Bruce Hall
Excerpts from the 1969 Off-Broadway production at the Cherry Lane Theater of To Be Young, Gifted and Black: The World of Lorraine Hansberry, adapted by Robert Nemiroff, Hansberry's widower, and directed by Gene Frankel.
To Be Young, Gifted and Black: The World of Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words
The First Breeze of Summer
Ethel Ayler, Charles Brown
A portrait of an African American working-class family, this stage production depicts an elderly grandmother's flashbacks to the affairs she had as a young woman and a hard-working father's current conflict with his two unhappy sons.
The First Breeze of Summer
Solomon Northup's Odyssey
Gordon Parks
Avery Brooks, Mason Adams
This is based on a true story. Solomon Northrop is a black man in the mid 19th century before slavery was abolished. He's a born freeman who works as a carpenter and is also a part time musician. One day he is approached by some men who want him to play for them. However, that is not their intention; they have kidnapped him and sold him into slavery. Now he has to endure the hardships that he has been spared because of his status as a freeman. And his family who don't know what happened to him is searching for him but where do they go? And Solomon also wishes to let them know where he is so that they could get him but unfortunately no one believes his story or is willing to help him.
Solomon Northup's Odyssey