As the sun sets over the Collegiate Peaks in central Colorado, John Edward Graybill blacks out the windows of his kitchen, which doubles as his studio. A single beam of
The Tony Award-winning play, loosely based on Alicia Keys鈥 childhood, falls into the same trap much theatre does, failing to depict the nuances of Black trauma.
It's hypocritical for each party to claim to speak on behalf of the forgotten and marginalized while mockingly calling the other side 鈥渨eird.鈥 It鈥檚 also deeply regressive.
A new documentary chronicles efforts to keep rap lyrics from being used by prosecutors, combatting a long-standing trend of criminalizing this particular art form.