J. Kim Murphy editorKimberly Hébert and Ryan Michelle Bathe take over Variety‘s Instagram account Tuesday, June 16 at 12 p.m.
PT to discuss the upcoming virtual presentation of the late actor, writer and social activist Beah Richards’ “A Black Woman Speaks.”Richards — who earned an Oscar nod for her performance in “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner”, died in 2000 at the age of 80 — penned and debuted “A Black Woman Speaks” in 1950.
The verse performance piece indicts white womanhood for the role that they play in oppressing women of color and challenges the polite notions of feminism while examining the intersectionality of race and gender for Black women in America.Tiffany Boone (“Little Fires Everywhere,” “Hunters”), Kelly McCreary (“Grey’s.
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