“There's no idea in the world that is not contained by Black life. I could write forever about the Black experience in America.”

Past events
A
Jam Session

Featuring
Phylicia Rashad
With
Ruben Santiago-Hudson


And
Ebony Jo-Ann
Moderated by
Dr. Sandra G.
Shannon

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THE GROUND LECTURE SERIES
August wilson's 75th Birthday
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Poet... Playwright... Prophet... Warrior... Master Story Teller... Two-time Pulitzer Prize Winner ... Chronicler of the Black Experience...
Yes, that was our
August Wilson, who would have turned 75 years old on Monday, April 27, 2020!
The August Wilson African American Cultural Center and the August Wilson Society have teamed up to commemorate and celebrate Wilson’s 75th birthday by hosting AUGUST WILSON AT 75: A VIRTUAL BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION, an enlightening, well-timed Face Book live discussion on one of the most produced, most studied, most relevant, and most impactful playwrights of the late twentieth and twenty-first century: August Wilson.
Join August Wilson Society President Dr. Sandra Shannon along with award-winning actor and director Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Pittsburgh actor Nathan James and poet Jessica Care Moore at 11 a.m. on April 27 to explore little-known aspects of Wilson’s culturally uplifting art and politics and to find in his life’s work inspiration for these difficult times.

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