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Keith Josef Adkins
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Apr 29, 2008 08:59 AM
Black women have recently made mucho headway in that thing called theater arts. From Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks to MacArthur Genius Awardee Lynn Nottage, black women have been creatively and ingeniously unearthing what makes them tick. They...
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Keith Josef Adkins
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Apr 26, 2008 08:05 AM
I actually thought I could end the day without thinking about Sean. Go through my weekend and pretend it didn't happen the way it happened. I really believed I could avoid every email, Facebook update, every subtle and/or vocal comment in Fort Greene,...
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Keith Josef Adkins
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Apr 25, 2008 07:23 AM
Many of my NYC crew [both actors and writers] have had much success in paying the rent by working in Daytime. It's a starting point for many. A legit way to get on-camera [or off-] experience as well as national public exposure. Now I have to admit, I...
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Keith Josef Adkins
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Apr 24, 2008 09:23 AM
A week ago the Writer's Guild of America sent out an email to all of its members. It was the fi-core blacklist. A list of guild members who left the union during the infamous 2007 strike to sustain personal needs. Fi-Core, for those who forgot, legally...
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Keith Josef Adkins
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Apr 23, 2008 07:20 AM
Obama may have lost Pennsylvania, but the road to triumph for a black attorney is not easy. Just ask actor Laurence Fishburne. I mean, Thurgood Marshall. I mean... actually, they both have a lot to say on the matter. As the polls were leaning in Clinton's...
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Keith Josef Adkins
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Apr 22, 2008 08:00 AM
A few days ago I was leaving a show and decided to meander over to my old stomping ground—Convent Avenue and 149th Street in Harlem. I didn't actually stomp there, I was mostly scrimping and surviving. From the outside, the building was pretty amazing....
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Keith Josef Adkins
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Apr 21, 2008 08:58 AM
Saturday was interesting. I actually pried myself away from Brooklyn and trained it over to Manhattan to see a play. When I sat down in the theater I realized everyone around me was throwing signs. Meaning, using American sign language as the source of...
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Keith Josef Adkins
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Apr 18, 2008 09:03 AM
Last night I saw the Classical Theater of Harlem's Emancipation. Ty Jones' play that explores the life of Nat Turner. Over the years I've certainly heard and read a lot about Turner's infamous insurrection. His holy calling. The aftermath his rampage...
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Keith Josef Adkins
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Apr 17, 2008 08:27 AM
Back in the 80s when I was applying for undergrad, my parents insisted I avoid Kent State. Once President Nixon announced the country was invading Cambodia and the students at Kent went into protest and some lost their lives, Kent had been etched into...
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Keith Josef Adkins
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Apr 15, 2008 07:18 AM
Foreclosures amok, airlines merging, the U.S. dollar losing its punch, it's safe to say the current economic climate is mind-boggling. But when a major New York City theater loses a million dollars in their operating budget, things begin to look grim....
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Keith Josef Adkins
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Apr 11, 2008 08:34 AM
Two years ago my favorite playwriting instructor, Cassandra Medley, wrote a play called Relativity. A play that dramatizes the argument that melanin makes people of color smarter. Recently L.A. Theaterworks made the play available for internet listening....
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Keith Josef Adkins
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Apr 10, 2008 08:20 AM
Yesterday my friend Claire from New Orleans called after leaving an audition for the new film Chess. She was not just livid, she was ready to throw in her acting towel and move, once again, to Europe. The woman who was costuming the auditioning actor-dancers...
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Keith Josef Adkins
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Apr 8, 2008 07:17 AM
BLACK FACE IS COMING! Last spring there was some cyber-hoopla about Robert Downey Jr. portraying a black man in Ben Stiller's forthcoming Tropic Thunder. Unfortunately, I was too busy being outraged by some Tyler Perry caricature to notice. Well, Saturday...
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Keith Josef Adkins
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Apr 4, 2008 07:43 AM
My dad dropped a big one on me yesterday: His grandfather attended Morehouse. I didn't know. His grandfather was the much-older classmate to the Reverend Otis Moss Jr [father of Rev. Wright's predecessor Otis Moss III]. His grandfather was directly inspired...
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Keith Josef Adkins
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Apr 2, 2008 09:07 AM
Summer 2007. The Adkins clan convened in Memphis for their annual reunion. Folks flew in from Cali, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Ohio. It was an opportunity to do something other than congregate on Friday for locally-catered cuisine and go our separate ways...
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