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Mike Wiley On Telling the Story of Booker T. Spicely

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Talking with the playwright about “Changing Same,” his one-man play about Booker T. Spicely, a Black WWII soldier murdered by a Durham bus driver in 1944 in a blatant act […]

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Durham Premiere of “Fire of Freedom” Spotlights Historical Black Leader

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By Sarah Rogers on March 14, 2022 CONTACT: Sarah Rogers (919) 660-3035 sarah.rogers@duke.edu   DURHAM, N.C. — Abraham Galloway was a freedom fighter. Born near Wilmington, N.C. in 1837, he […]

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Exposing America’s Hallowed Ground

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Story by Corbie Hill May 21, 2023 A jet-lagged Charlie Thompson stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and gazed out over the Reflecting Pool. Days earlier he had […]

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Story of civil rights heroes dramatized at Charlotte’s MLK holiday breakfast

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  BY TIM FUNK tfunk@charlotteobserver.com The accent was on both the past and the future Monday when about 1,300 people gathered at the Charlotte Convention Center for the McCrorey YMCA’s […]

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The Guthrie Theater presents THE PARCHMAN HOUR

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  Previews begin Saturday, October 1; Opening on Friday, October 7;  Playing through Sunday, November 6, 2016 on the McGuire Proscenium Stage at the Guthrie Theater   Minneapolis/St. Paul—The Guthrie Theater […]

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Wiley brings ‘Blood’ to Thalian

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By Bob Workmon StarNews Correspondent Mike Wiley got his master’s degree in theater from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2004. It was the same year that […]

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