Robert Macbeth, Founder of Harlem's New Lafayette Theater, Dies at 89
Briefly

I must have scared the audience half to death...But rather than absorb his message, they seemed to take it as entertainment: They loved it, but that wasn't the idea.
Slowly, an idea took form: Black actors and playwrights could never be fully effective in white-dominated spaces. They needed their own.
Read at www.nytimes.com
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