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TOC – The Art and Activism Issue

Dramatist Guild of America
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A miniature, or maquette, of a sculpture in reddish-brown clay depicting Lorraine Hansberry sitting on a tree stump surrounded by five different kinds of chairs
Lorraine Was Here
  • Joey Stocks
Yellow rectangle with black and white typographical art reading 8: Approval of Production Elements and 9: The Right to be Present
Charlayne Woodard: Dramatist’s Bill of Rights
  • Charlayne Woodard
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Karen Zacarías: Ten Questions
  • Karen Zacarias
Digital illustration of three aspects of Lorraine Hansberry: one showing her wearing a crew-neck t-shirt and smoking a cigarette, one showing her wearing a pearl necklace and wearing a suit, the other showing her wearing the same pearl necklace over a sleeveless dress, wearing sunglasses, and holding a microphone from the 1950s
The Playwright as Activist: Lorraine Hansberry’s Legacy
  • Lynn Nottage,
  • Erika Dickerson-Despenza,
  • and Lisa Kron
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International Human Rights Art Festival
  • Larry Dean Harris
Series of four headshots collaged together of a white woman with short hair parted on the side, a Black woman with very short hair and her chin resting on her hand, a white man with white hair and beard, and a young Black man with short, dark hair shaved on the sides and back, with his head resting on his hand.
The Intersection of Activism and Art
  • Carolyn Gage,
  • Pearl Cleage,
  • Robert Schenkkan,
  • and Keelay Gipson
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TOSOS Continues to Break Through the Silence
  • Tari Stratton
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Time to Act
  • Ralph Sevush
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Silk Road Rising
  • Novid Parsi
Four different headshots of four different people collaged together: a Black woman with thick, dark hair; a bald man with a dark beard and wears glasses with dark, rectangular frames, a white woman with dark blond hair, and a woman with straight, dark, long hair and v-neck jacket
On Art and Activism
  • Christine Toy Johnson,
  • Ifa Bayeza,
  • Mashuq Mushtaq Deen,
  • and Catherine Filloux
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Voices from Afar
  • Fouad Teymour
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A Secular Prayer for the Artist’s Radical Rest
  • Ayla Xuan Chi Sullivan
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Guild News – May/June 2023
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Dramatists Diary – May/June 2023
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New Guild Members as of May 15, 2023
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Vickie Ramirez: Why I Joined the Guild
  • Vickie Ramirez

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