Suzan lori parks biography of mahatma gandhi

  • Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, screenwriter, musician, and novelist Suzan-Lori Parks spoke at a nontraditional lecture she called “A Million Suggestions.”.
  • A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity is Suzan-Lori Parks latest riff on the way we are defined by history.
  • The drama Venus by Suzan Lori Parks shows that a character named Sarah Baartman faces various kinds of violence in her life when she works in England.

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    The Most Famous Man in America

    by Debby Applegate

    No one predicted success for Henry Ward Beecher at his birth in 1813. The blithe, boisterous son of the last great Puritan minister, he seemed destined to be overshadowed by his brilliant siblings—especially his sister, Harriet Beecher Stowe, who penned the century’s bestselling book Uncle Tom’s Cabin. But when pushed into the ministry, the charismatic Beecher found international fame by shedding his father Lyman's Old Testament–style fire-and-brimstone theology and instead preaching a New Testament–based gospel of unconditional love and healing, becoming one of the founding fathers of modern American Christianity. By the 1850s, his spectacular sermons at Plymouth Church in Brooklyn Heights had made him New York’s number one tourist attraction, so wildly popular that the ferries from Manhattan to Brooklyn were dubbed “Beecher Boats.”

    Beecher inserted himself into nearly every important drama of the era—among them the antislavery

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    10 Questions for Ifa Bayeza

    - By Franchesca Viaud


    © Joanna Eldredge Morrissey

    In three interconnected plays, The Till Trilogy is an imagined, speculative exploration of the epic of Emmett Till and the birth the modern Civil Rights Movement, the events as seen from the perspective of the youth, himself, in his final days of life, as a specter during the trial of his killers and a shadowed presence in the aftermath.
    —Excerpt from Ifa Bayeza's "The Till Trilogy," Volume 65, Issue 2 (Summer 2024)

    Tell us about one of the first pieces you wrote.
    Not counting “Mahatma Gandhi, Man of Peace,” which I presented to my fourth grade class after discovering him in the World Book Encyclopedia and reading “What Negroes Can Learn from Gandhi” in LOOK magazine (I guess I might call that a performance essay), my very first play was in the sixth grade: “The Mummy’s Curse” was a comedy about the two British archaeologists who plund

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    1009 Suzan-Lori Parks finds a common bond in our shared dilemma

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