Audiences would be embarrassed to see also in Great Gatsby and admit they didn't know the story. But we don't know Wilson. Y'all know why.
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And I don't blame us. I absolutely blame a system of education that place black story in elective classes-if you're lucky.
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Wilson, Morrison, Hurston, Hughes, Shange, Baldwin, Walker, Angelou, and so many more should be read by all American students.
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I was lucky enough to twice take Black Theater Studies with the head of STL's Black Rep-also the first theater where I saw a Wilson play.
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But to have to be lucky to study Wilson and his mission instead of have it our core curriculum is an absolute travesty.
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So often we become a community of elites-even on here. Academics and well-studied folks w access who discuss the finer pts of Wilson.
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That's good-he should be discussed+embraced with the sophisticated scholarship he deserves. But let's not forget this is an intro for some
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So thankful to Denzel for sacrificing and working for years to see this-and other Wilson work-come to the mainstream for American audiences
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Wilson is an American playwright with a body of work that is as quintessentially us as anything else we make 10th graders read.
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So, this was originally to be an HBO thing, and Washington was putting together plans for all 10 of the "Cycle" plays. That still happening?
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Found the NYT story: http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/artsbeat/2015/09/18/denzel-washington-august-wilson-hbo/?referer= …
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