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Making and Celebrating Change: Penelope Lowder Reflects on Black Women in Primetime

Michelle Flowers | Posted 04.23.2013 | Black Voices
Read More: Women, Theater, Identity, Black Thought, Beauty, Black Theater, Penelope Lowder, Black Voices News
Michelle Flowers

From Julia and Get Christie Love! to HawthoRNe, Scandal and Deception, the image of black women on primetime television has expanded in fits and starts.

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Balancing Act: Lisa B. Thompson Explores Motherhood, Loss and More

Michelle Flowers | Posted 04.10.2013 | Good News
Read More: Black Women, Community, Youth Violence, Theater, Education, Academia, Black-Theater, Black Theater, Good News News
Michelle Flowers

Some people have more hours in the day. That is the conclusion that one might draw when considering all the tasks that playwright, scholar and mom Lisa B. Thompson juggles on any given day.

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Shock For Nation's Largest Black Theater

Huffington Post | Lucas Kavner | Posted 09.07.2012 | Arts
Read More: Video, Funding Cuts, Budget Cuts, Budget Problems, African American Theater, Black Theater, Penumbra Theatre, Minneapolis Theater, Arts Funding, Regional Theater, Arts News

The Penumbra Theater Company in St. Paul, Minnesota, announced on Thursday that it was suspending all its programming due to a lack of overall funds. ...

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Marcus Baram

Where Denzel Got His Start: Legendary Theater Celebrates 40 Years Of Bringing The Drama

HuffingtonPost.com | Marcus Baram | Posted 07.16.2011 | New York
Read More: New Federal Theatre, Woodie King, New Federal Theater, Woodie King Theater, Black Theater, Denzel Theater New Federal, New York News

Long before Denzel Washington was Denzel -- the two-time Oscar winner who is one of Hollywood’s biggest stars -- he was a struggling actor taking th...

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