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Monumental Travesties, written by playwright-in-residence Psalmayene 24.“My thought was we would go to the rehearsal room, show you that,” he says, leading me through a maze of hallways, and up a stairway to the second floor. “And then meet Psalm and everybody, and then we could sneak peek into the theater.”Douglas is directing Monumental Travesties, a sharp, D.C.-set comedy centered around a Black performance artist’s radical response to the Emancipation Memorial, that statue of Lincoln lording over a formerly enslaved man on his knees erected nearly 150 years ago in Capitol Hill’s Lincoln Park.Featuring Renee Elizabeth Wilson, Jonathan Feuer, and Louis E.

Confederates renders a frank, witty, and delightfully twisted exploration of racial biases, be they unconscious or firmly resolved.The play, directed by Stori Ayers in a riveting new production at Mosaic, derives some suspense from the anticipation that its parallel plotlines might connect. But whether or not the individual stories of embattled college professor Sandra (Nikkole Salter) and enslaved rebel Sara (Deidre Staples) actually meet, their experiences as Black women, though separated by centuries, are still intertwined.Even Nadir Bey’s evocative set design suggests as much, combining Sandra’s office and Sara’s plantation cabin within the same space.

People. “But what that figure is, I have no idea.”Trevelyan, who currently leads a group of British families looking to make amends for their family’s involvement in the trade, revealed that in February she donated $127,000 of her savings to the government in Grenada after discovering her family once owned a thousand slaves from the Caribbean country.The former journalist is now asking the new King, who said in April that he would welcome an investigation into his family’s ties to the slave trade, to do the same.“There would be a great healing power to an apology for slavery and some kind of reparative justice strategy from the King,” Trevelyan said to the outlet.

set to hang in the Metropolitan Museum of Art this fall after half a century in hiding.The Jacques Guillaume Lucien Amans attributed work from 1837, titled “Bélizaire and the Frey Children,” depicts the three kids of wealthy New Orleans French Quarter banker Frederick Frey alongside 15-year-old Bélizaire — whom the family reportedly purchased as a 6-year-old.“The Frey portrait shows a surprising intimacy between the four children, suggesting that Bélizaire was a valued member of the household, despite his enslaved status,” according to ArtNet.“But at some point around the turn of the century, someone painted over Bélizaire, not only erasing him from the Frey family history but obscuring a rare example from the era of a realistic portrait of an enslaved person.”The altered portrait was kept by the Frey clan for over a century. In 1972, a descendant of the family matriarch, Coralie D’Aunoy Frey, donated the painting to the New Orleans Museum of Art and reportedly explained that Bélizaire was erased.“However, the institution chose not to do anything with that information,” the outlet reported.

Disney’s The Little Mermaid, Caribbean Slavery, and Telling the Truth to Children,” Ryder points out that the movie appears to take place in the Caribbean in the 18th century during a time of African chattel slavery — yet the islanders depicted in the film seem to live in a world free of this inhumanity.“In this setting, I do not think we do our children any favors by pretending that slavery didn’t exist,” he wrote. “For me Disney’s preference to try and wish the inconvenient truth away says more about the adult creatives than it does about children’s ability to work through it.”Though he acknowledged that the movie is a fantasy and doesn’t necessarily need to be historically accurate, he said that Disney shouldn’t be “encouraging historical amnesia.”“But the total erasure and rewriting of one of the most painful and important parts of African diasporic history, is borderline dangerous, especially when it is consumed unquestioningly by children,” he added.Ryder proposed that Disney could have instead set the live-action film in Haiti after slavery was overthrown, with Ariel meeting Prince Eric in the wake of real racial harmony and not sacrificing historical accuracy.“We owe it to our children to give them the most amazing fantastical stories possible to help their imaginations grow,” Ryder said.

the Guardian reported on Thursday.De Koning’s study, which began in October, is co-sponsored by Historic Royal Palaces, an independent nonprofit that manages several monarchy-owned sites in London and Northern Ireland. Her research is due to wrap up in fall 2026.In a statement obtained by The Post, a spokesperson for Buckingham Palace said that the king takes this work “profoundly seriously,” repeating his message to Commonwealth leaders in Rwanda last year: “I cannot describe the depths of my personal sorrow at the suffering of so many, as I continue to deepen my own understanding of slavery’s enduring impact.”“That process has continued with vigor and determination since His Majesty’s accession,” the palace rep continued, adding that researchers would be granted access to the royal collections and archives.

HBO Max noting in a new disclaimer it “denies the horrors of slavery, as well as its legacies of racial inequality.”However, historian David Vincent Kimel is now revealing that several writers pushed for a more realistic depiction of race relations — only for their dark, disturbing and violent scenes to be cut from the finished product. The Oscar-winning film is adapted from Margaret Mitchell’s 1936 novel, which follows the strong-willed Georgia belle Scarlett O’Hara.

the new ABC sitcom “Call Your Mother.”“I spend a lot of time zipping my lips, trying not to meddle, waiting for the questions, waiting for the, ‘What do you think, Mom?’ I will wait for that question, rather than [say] I think you should do this or let me make that doctor’s appointment for you,” the 55-year-old actress told The Post with a laugh.Sedgwick has two kids — son, Travis, 31, and daughter, Sosie, 28 — with husband Kevin Bacon. The couple has been married for over 30 years — the equivalent of 132 years by Hollywood standards.“The Closer” actress promises that there are no mysterious reasons explaining their happy union. “Honestly, we just got lucky, there’s no secret, we just got so lucky when we were so young,” she said.

the new ABC sitcom “Call Your Mother.”“I spend a lot of time zipping my lips, trying not to meddle, waiting for the questions, waiting for the, ‘What do you think, Mom?’ I will wait for that question, rather than [say] I think you should do this or let me make that doctor’s appointment for you,” the 55-year-old actress told The Post with a laugh.Sedgwick has two kids — son, Travis, 31, and daughter, Sosie, 28 — with husband Kevin Bacon. The couple has been married for over 30 years — the equivalent of 132 years by Hollywood standards.“The Closer” actress promises that there are no mysterious reasons explaining their happy union. “Honestly, we just got lucky, there’s no secret, we just got so lucky when we were so young,” she said.

their appreciation of their homeland to “Dixie,” even if, according to legend, it’s the title of one of Abraham Lincoln’s favorite songs (one, incidentally, in which the author longs to be in “the land of cotton” because “old times there are not forgotten”).Regardless of its origin, for many Blacks, ‘Dixie’ conjures a time and a place of bondage.“Dixie,” however, didn’t bring down the Dixie Chicks. Judging by the response to Maines’ 2003 comment, many of the trio’s fans up to that point were the types of Southerners who still lived and would die for Dixie, or at least a Republican-centric vision of the good old U.S.