Kuumba Series
| Ed Bullins |
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Ed Bullins is Distinguished Artist-in-Residence at Northeastern University. Among the awards his 50+ plays have won are the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the Vernon Rice Drama Desk Award, the Obie, and the AUDELCO Award. His paper will discuss his role in the Dramatist Guild's support of the boycotted Paul Robeson (1978) by Phillip Hayes Dean, starring James Earl Jones. Bullins, for the first time, will share his views about the significance of his opposition to the boycott, although he respected the boycotters, who included Paul Robeson Jr., James Baldwin, Gwendolyn Brooks, Vinnette Carroll, Coretta Scott King, Lonne Elder III, and U.S. Representative Charles Rangel. |
