For Juneteenth: 19 Black American Playwrights To Read Today
Below is a sample of published scripts written by 19 Black American playwrights, in honor of Juneteenth, which is a federal holiday, although established as such only since 2021. The holiday commemorates ,June 19, 1865, when Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, to share the news that the Civil War had ended and that enslaved...