Merceria Ludgood, a longtime Mobile County commissioner, remembers going to Black movie theaters in Mobile because her mother refused to enter the segregated entrance at the Saenger Theatre. Along ...

A Seattle-based theater company hosts performances of Shakespeare meant to be racially segregated. The organization collectively received over $100,000 in tax dollars since 2021. Seattle Shakespeare ...

Sixty years ago downtown Knoxville was abuzz with people picketing the three Gay Street movie theaters. There are photographs of some people lying on the sidewalk in protest and some being arrested ...

LAURENS — The Echo Project reached something of a milestone on May 27 when it lit its new neon sign at the old, once-segregated movie house. It was the first time in more than 25 years that lights ...

Gastonia native Walter Jones and his younger brother, Willie, may have been two of the first Black people to "see" a movie at the Webb Theater, even though the Gastonia movie house remained "whites ...

Laurence Criner and Kathryn Boyd star in 'The Flying Ace' (1926), a crime melodrama with an all-Black cast. 'The Flying Ace,' produced at the time for Black audiences in segregated theaters, will be ...

Vestiges of racism and oppression, from bricked-over segregated entrances to the forgotten sites of racial violence, still permeate much of America’s built environment. The Edmund Pettus Bridge in ...

(AP) — "Black Angels Over Tuskegee," is a serious history lesson told with humor. Based on true events, this powerful play, on view at off-Broadway's St. Luke's Theatre, is about brotherhood among the ...