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Chapter 14 - Staging Black Lives Matter

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 June 2023

By
Khalid Y. Long
Edited by
Harvey Young
Harvey Young
Affiliation:
Boston University
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Khalid Y. Long outlines the origins of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2013, following the murder of teenager Trayvon Martin and the acquittal of his killer. He traces how theatre producers and playwrights collaborated to create artistry in response to a series of contemporary murders of Black men, women, and children—Eric Garner and Michael Brown among others—often by police officers. Theatre speaks back to this tragic violence in two featured play collections: New Black Fest’s Facing Our Truth and Reginald Edmund’s Black Lives, Black Words.

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Trayvon MartinBlack Lives Black WordsReginald Edmund
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The Cambridge Companion to African American Theatre , pp. 283 - 299
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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