Hooks National Book Award winner ties Black theater to activism
Julius B. Fleming Jr. receives the 2022 Hooks Institute National Book Award on behalf of for his book “Black Patience: Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project for Emancipation” at Hattiloo Theatre in Midtown on Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024. (Ziggy Mack/Special to The Daily Memphian)
In particular, the assistant professor honed in on theater as a way to resist calls for what Fleming describes as “Black patience” or for Black people to suffer and wait patiently to receive equal rights.
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