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The Piano Lesson–A Cacophony

Adapted from August Wilson’s 1987 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Piano Lesson (2024) opens with  Mississippi slaver Robert Sutter (David Atkinson) trading two enslaved brothers for a piano to give to his wife at the onset of the Civil War.  Fast forward to 1911 and brother Charles (Stephan James) steals the piano from enslaver Sutter’s...

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“BlacKkKlansman”: Part of the American Fabric?

  A  Spike Lee film about white supremacy, BlacKkKlansman is based on Ron Stallworth’s 2006 memoir, which eviscerates the hideous social structures of racism in the US. In 1979 Stallworth (played by newcomer, John David Washington, son of Denzel Washington) becomes the first black detective in Colorado Springs’s police...

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