2020: Black & Male in America - a Conversation Continued

This past January, SpeakEasy Stage Company and the Front Porch Arts Collective produced Pass Over by Antoinette Nwandu, a powerful and timely play about police violence, systemic racism, and the difficulty in escaping the box in which society places you.

During the run of this show, we hosted a panel entitled “2020: Black & Male in America”, at which community experts and academics discussed what it truly means to be a black man in our country today. It was one of our best-attended post-show discussions ever, and the conversations that arose during the panel stayed with many of us long after we left the theatre.

In the wake of the current Black Lives Matter protests and the desire for further conversation on this topic, Front Porch and SpeakEasy have decided to virtually reprise the panel.

Thus, we invite you to join us for a continuation of the conversation next Tuesday, June 16 at 5:00pm. The panel will be available to watch live on SpeakEasy’s Facebook page.

The panel will include:
-Kadahj Bennett (Winner of the Elliot Norton Award for Best Actor for his Performance as Moses in Pass Over)
-Thaddeus Miles (Director of Community Services, MassHousing)
-Maurice Emmanuel Parent (Executive Director, The Front Porch Arts Collective)
-Dr. Emmett G. Price III (Professor of Worship, Church & Culture, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary; Institute for the Study of the Black Christian Experience – ISBCE)

Moderated by Gary Bailey (Assistant Dean of Community Engagement and Social Justice, Simmons College).