Shakespeare in Black and White
b'"Our own voices with our own tongues"\\n\\u2014CORIOLANUS (2.3.47)\\n\\nIn one of two podcasts on Shakespeare and the African American experience, "Our Own Voices with Our Own Tongues" revisits the era when Jim Crow segregation was at its height, from a few years after the end of the Civil War to the 1940s and 1950s.\\n\\nRebecca Sheir, host of the Shakespeare Unlimited series, talks about black Americans and Shakespeare in that time with two scholars of the period, Marvin MacAllister and Ayanna Thompson.\\n\\nThe discussion ranges from landmark performances\\u2014Orson Welles\'s Depression-era all-black MACBETH and Paul Robeson\'s Othello\\u2014 to powerful, though less familiar, stories from the Folger\'s hometown of Washington, DC. It also draws in later questions about African Americans and Shakespeare, including the role of race in casting choices to this day.\\n\\nMarvin MacAllister is an associate professor of African American Studies at the University of South Carolina.\\n\\nAyanna Thompson is a professor of English at George Washington University and a trustee of the Shakespeare Association of America.\\n\\n-----------------\\nFrom the Shakespeare Unlimited podcast series. \\xa9 Folger Shakespeare Library. All rights reserved.\\n\\nProduced for the Folger Shakespeare Library by Richard Paul. Garland Scott is the associate producer. Edited by Gail Kern Paster and Esther Ferington.\\n\\nWe also had help from Dr. James Hatch, co-author with the late Errol Hill of "A History of African American Theatre"; Connie Winston; Anthony Hill and Douglas Barnett, co-authors of "The Historical Dictionary of African American Theater"; and Jobie Sprinkle and Tena Simmons at radio station WFAE in Charlotte, North Carolina.'