Review: The Good Negro
 

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The Good Negro, currently getting a searing production at the Anthony Bean Community Theater, examines the Civil Rights movement as a struggle by imperfect individuals trying to combat institutionalized injustice.


Minister James Lawrence (Jarrod Smith), loosely based on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and his close ally Henry Evans (Damien A. Moses) set up shop in Birmingham, Ala., in 1962 to fight segregation.? [ Read more ]

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