“Wylie Avenue Views” – Robbie McCauley, Award-Winning Actress Part II “Learning and Talking More with Robbie McCauley”, Part II “Everything to you is jazz. Me I’m classical,” Robbie McCauley’s daughter, composer Jessie Montgomery, http://www.jessiemontgomery.com/about/, www.jessiemontgomery.com, says... Read More
Barbara B. Lewis
Barbara Lewis heads the Trotter Institute at UMass Boston, where she is a faculty member in English. As a Francophone scholar, she co-translated Faulkner, Mississippi by Edouard Glissant, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. As a cultural historian, she has published on lynching in drama, the minstrel stage, and the black arts movement. Dr. Lewis has taught at City, Lehman, New York University, and the University of Kentucky. She also blogs for The Public Humanist, and is a board member at New Federal Theater.
"Always Learning", Part I This interview with Robbie McCauley, award-winning actress, inaugurates Wylie Avenue Views, a column about art and activism. Wylie Avenue is real and imaginary. It runs down the center of August Wilson’s ten play urban saga and it is forever alive, pulsing with music and ideas and new possibilities.... Read More
Georgette Seabrooke Powell – “And the Wall Yields Testimony” “And the Wall Yields Testimony” – Georgette Seabrooke Powell (August 2, 1916 – December 27, 2011) Something pulled me to the wall. Maybe it was... Read More
Lost in Chicago and Justified 6 min read Lost in Chicago Chicago’s Homan Square loses men, mostly the dark ones. At night and during the day, they are pulled from the streets, then... Read More
Killing the Voice of Others 5 min read Tamir Rice, 12, was at play when he died, shot because of his looks and what he held: a plastic-filled pellet gun that threatened no... Read More
Boston’s Trotter Institute: Looking to 2020 6 min read Boston is a port city with over fifty universities inside its borders, many of them world famous. This is a magnetic draw for the ambitious... Read More