Katori Hall and Erika Dickerson-Despenza: Crafting Their Narratives
The 2 playwrights talk about what’s been lost to the pandemic and look to a future in which Black stories are the default, not the exception.
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The 2 playwrights talk about what’s been lost to the pandemic and look to a future in which Black stories are the default, not the exception.
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The ‘Mountaintop’ scribe pulls no punches, and neither do her characters.