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Diversity and the Birth of Broadway: Early Black Authors of the American Musical

Diversity and the Birth of Broadway: Early Black Authors of the American Musical

This second of a two-part lecture sequence by Ben West, creator of the new documentary musical series The Show Time! Trilogy, offers an exciting account of the American musical’s early Black authors. In the first three decades of the 20th century, against a backdrop of segregation, social discord, and rampant racism, emerged such seminal figures […]

Black Campus Movement in Higher Education, 1965-72

Black Campus Movement in Higher Education, 1965-72

Hundreds of thousands of black students, aided on some campuses by white and Latino students, demanded and protested for a relevant learning experience. At upwards of 1,000 traditionally white and historically black colleges and universities in the United States, black campus activists initiated a range of campus reforms, including the addition of more black students, […]