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A Lincoln impersonator in Suzan-Lori Parks' 'The America Play' by Kerry Reid

The image of a black man as Abraham Lincoln seemingly haunts the fertile imagination of Suzan-Lori Parks. She won a Pulitzer Prize for 2002's "Topdog/Underdog," in which a black man named Lincoln portrayed the 16th president in an arcade shooting gallery. But that metaphorical take on the Great...

SOURCE: at 12:43PM on June 24, 2015

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