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A Cultural & Historical Loop: 'Round Black Broadway on U @ Woolly Mammoth!
By blkbroadwayonu in Featured,Press,Uncategorized
On its way to Broadway, A Strange Loop arrived at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company from November 22, 2021 – January 9, 2021. Before the Harlem Renaissance, the Black arts and culture movement thrived on D.C.'s U Street later known as "Black Broadway." Woolly is honored to be partnering with…
Black Broadway: Remembering ‪‎Addison Scurlock of Scurlock Studio‬
By blkbroadwayonu in Featured,Uncategorized
Washington, DC – June 20, 2016 – Before legendary 20th century African American photographers Gordon Parks, Robert H. McNeill (DC native) and James Van Der Zee there was D.C.'s famed AA photographer Addison Scurlock. Yesterday, marked Mr. Scurlock's (b. June 19, 1883 – December 12, 1964) 133rd birthday anniversary…
AFRO: Black Broadway On U preserves DC history on-demand
Washington, DC – June 1, 2016 – With gentrification rapidly changing the demographic landscape of Washington D.C.'s historic U Street corridor the history of what is known as "Black Broadway" lives in former journalist Shellee Haynesworth's virtual time capsule in cyberspace. Haynesworth's Black Broadway on U multi-media project tells…
WAMU 88.5 Bandwith: A Chat With The Creator Of 'Black Broadway On U,' A Trove Of D.C. Cultural History
Washington, DC – May 5, 2016 WAMU 88.5 Bandwidth – Multimedia project Black Broadway on U archives the people and places that made D.C.'s U Street corridor a hub of black culture during the first half of the 20th century. On U Street in 2016, it's easy to stumble…
A VR View of 'D.C.'s Black Broadway'
Celebrating 2021 Women's History Month: U Street's Black Women Achievers, Artisans & Thinkers of the 20th Century
One of America's Thriving "Black Wall Street" Districts of the 20th Century: U Street in Washington, D.C. later known as the "Black Broadway."
A Bit of Piano Jazz History from DC's U Street to Harlem's Lenox Avenue
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