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In E-Moves Part 2, Tiffany Rea-Fisher and EMERGE125 pay homage to the Harlem Renaissance and celebrate three Black, Queer, Female playwrights, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Mary Powell Burrill, and Angelina Weld Grimké. All three women were colleagues and early practitioners of a queer black feminist theater aesthetic at the turn of the 20th century.
About Rights of Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance is one of the most well-known cultural movements in American history. But what if we never got the full story? Step into a world where the untold stories of some of the movement's most pivotal figures come to life in the present day streets of Harlem, NY.
Learn More About the women who inspired Rights of Renaissance
Angelina Weld Grimké : Rachel A Play in Three Acts. College Park, Md.: McGrath Pub. Co., 1969; 1920. Print.
Mary P. Burrill: They That Sit in Darkness. Alexander Street Press: Black Drama. N.p, n.d. Web.
Alice Dunbar-Nelson: Mine Eyes Have Seen. Alexander Street Press: Black Drama. N.p, n.d. Web.
Peculiar Passages: Black Women Playwrights, 1875 to 2000. New York: Peter Lang, 2005. Print
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Lead Funding for E-Moves is provided by the Mertz-Gilmore Foundation with support from the Harkness Foundation for Dance.
ANTHEM is a digital music offering from EMERGE125 that weaves Lift Every Voice and the National Anthem. This heartfelt piece was created as part of the Rights of Renaissance project.
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