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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf is Ntozake Shange's choreopoem of 20 poems for seven color-named Black women, first staged in 1974, a 1976 Broadway Tony nominee later adapted for PBS in 1982, film in 2010, and Broadway revival in 2022.
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance, or New Negro Movement, was an African American cultural flowering in literature, art, music, and thought centered in Harlem, New York, from roughly World War I through the mid-1930s, driven by the Great Migration and ending with the Great Depression.
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is August Wilson's 1982/1984 drama set in a 1927 Chicago recording studio, the only American Century Cycle play not set in Pittsburgh, first staged at Yale Rep and on Broadway in 1984.
The Black and White Minstrel Show
The Black and White Minstrel Show (1958–1978) was a BBC television variety series in which white performers sang and danced in blackface, adapted from radio's The Kentucky Minstrels. It drew 16.5 million viewers by 1963, faced a 1967 CARD petition, and stage revivals followed its axing.