Category: #BlackLivesMatter

Chicago play ‘Lines in the Dust’ Takes on Families and Residency Fraud in Public Schools.

February 13, 2016

It would be a disservice to relegate the play Lines in the Dust as a compulsory offering of social protest fiction and bandwagon outpour, seeking attention on entitlement that audiences passively care about its themes and subjects to indict structural racism in America. To applaud it on such terms demeans the work below its highest merit as an actor’s play; it simply uses … More Chicago play ‘Lines in the Dust’ Takes on Families and Residency Fraud in Public Schools.

Anna Dauzvardis

“Liberty City” extended until July 19 at #etaCreativeArts in Chicago.

July 7, 2015

The intimacy and trust between audience and actor for this performance can hardly be reviewed or criticized and must just be experienced… Jeff- recommended “Liberty City” is LIVE this weekend and extended until July 19: this Friday, Jul 10 (8pm), Saturday, July 11, and Sunday, Jul 12 (3pm). ALL SEATS – $20. To get your tickets call 773 752-3955 or go online http://www.etacreativearts.org/ … More “Liberty City” extended until July 19 at #etaCreativeArts in Chicago.

Victims of the Charleston church attack

Little Rock Nine, Four Little Girls, and One Confederate Flag: A Retrospective

June 24, 2015

One way to move this tragedy and the deceased in it past public ephemera and into history is to forever connect the loss of their lives to a national symbolic act against domestic terrorism: the legally-mandated abolition of our Confederate flag, and civil prosecution of anyone who waves it. … More Little Rock Nine, Four Little Girls, and One Confederate Flag: A Retrospective

Racial Profiling and Black Girls

“We have to give our black girls “the Talk”- and it’s not about sex…”…my essay on the horrifying McKinney, Texas, injustice, on SheKnows.com…

June 18, 2015

Racial profiling does not discriminate by gender…it’s time to tell our black girls the police may not be working for them. … More “We have to give our black girls “the Talk”- and it’s not about sex…”…my essay on the horrifying McKinney, Texas, injustice, on SheKnows.com…

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My story “There Were Six” appears in Per Contra: An International Journal of The Arts, Literature, and Ideas

June 16, 2015

The number of black women and girls who go missing without a manhunt or trace continues. I am grateful to share my fictionalization of the predicament of deprioritized black women and girls as the story “There Were Six” in Per Contra: An International Journal of The Arts, Literature and Ideas. I don’t presume to do justice to the realistic situation in a story, but please find some helpful links and resources included in this post. … More My story “There Were Six” appears in Per Contra: An International Journal of The Arts, Literature, and Ideas

Birthing a Slave: Reproduction and Inhumanity during America’s Slavery Era

June 8, 2015

Originally posted on Jubilo! The Emancipation Century:
Most people know of slavery, but we don’t know about slavery. Specifically, we don’t know how dehumanizing it was to be a slave. We might understand what it’s like to be denied freedom or dignity at an intellectual level. But for many of us, we don’t have a…