“Two Black men in a room doesn’t mean that This is, you know, this is how it’s going to go down. It can go down millions of different… ways.”
Three African Americans received Tony Awards at the 2023 ceremony. Alex Newell won Best Featured Actor in a Musical for performing “Shucked,” J. Harrison Ghee snagged Best Leading Actor in a Musical for performing in “Some Like It Hot,” and Suzan-Lori Parks earned the Best Play Revival award for her production, “Topdog/Underdog.”
Director Lee Daniels (“Precious”) has taken the audience into his imagined world of the late, great, and deeply complicated Billie Holiday aka Lady Day, in “The United States vs. Billie Holiday,” with a screenplay written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and novelist Suzan-Lori Parks (“Topdog/Underdog”).
The First African American Woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize talks about her adaption of Richard Wrights’ novel ‘Native Son’ (now playing on HBO), and more.
“Native Son” is the story of Bigger Thomas, a young black man filled with promise who accidentally…