“Shut up and Listen!” City Repertory Theatre's Production of “The Niceties” Explores the Mis-Education of Black History

“Shut up and Listen!” City Repertory Theatre's Production of “The Niceties” Explores the Mis-Education of Black History

In “The Niceties,” Eleanor Burgess’ 2018 two-person play, Zoe – a Black millennial Ivy League student – heatedly confronts her white, female Boomer history professor: “Listen, there is one appropriate way to respond to a woman of color when she says ‘I have an idea to assert,’ and that is to shut up and listen because she has experiences that you cannot possibly know and insights you can learn from.” The play, running from Thursday to Sunday at …

Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism

Registration will be available soon. On Monday, September 22, scholar Eve L. Ewing, in conversation with Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian and Rethinking Schools executive director Cierra Kaler-Jones, will discuss her book, Original Sins: The (Mis)Education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism, an examination of how the U.S. school system helps maintain racial inequality and social hierarchies. Eve L. Ewing…

THE NICETIES at Shea's Smith Theatre: A Tense Academic Showdown Explores Race, History, and Power.  And it’s good! - Buffalo Rising

THE BASICS:  THE NICETIES, a play by Eleanor Burgess, directed by Gabriella Jean McKinley, starring Pamela Rose Mangus & Anika Pace. 2/14 – 3/2 Thu-Fri 7:30, Sat 8:00, Sun 2:00 presented by Second Generation Theatre at Shea’s Smith Theatre, 660 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14202. (716) 847-1410 secondgenerationtheatre.com RUNTIME: 2 hours, including one intermission THUMBNAIL SKETCH: It’s 2016 at the end of the Obama era, and Zoe, a Millennial Black…