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Laura Flanders talks to creative thinkers and change-makers from the worlds of politics, arts and the new economy. The smartest conversations, with the smartest thinkers and doers of our time, distributed in multiple formats on a variety of platforms. Keep abreast of fresh content by following GRITtv, the site Flanders founded, on Twitter @GRITtv.
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Apr 1, 2009
15:34
News & Politics
Being "good" in America is hard enough. Being good in the Civil Rights Era, when you're not a saint but rather a regular African American human is t...
Being "good" in America is hard enough. Being good in the Civil Rights Era, when you're not a saint but rather a regular African American human is the challenge at the heart of a new play by Tracey Scott Wilson. The The Good Negro is set in 1963 Alabama, in a town like Birmingham. It tells a partly familiar story - of civil rights heroes and villains caught in the deadly tinderbox of US apartheid as it crumbled. But it tells the less known parts of the story too -- the not very heroic side of some heroes and the pretty defiant side of some victims.
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