A round-up of news and announcements we don’t want to get lost in the fast-churning news cycle!
It’s a week for hearings, local and national. These include the first inquest hearing into the 2017 death of Charleena Lyles, which is a judicial inquiry that lays out and ascertains the facts of the case. Nationally, the fourth of the Jan. 6 Committee hearings has also just passed; the fifth takes place Thursday morning, June 23. Recent flickers of white nationalist groups making hyperlocal plays and targeting LGBTQ+ communities can’t help but feel like echoes of insurrection.
But there is still some levity to be found. Pride events continue this weekend — see our guide — including Lavender Rights Project’s Black Trans Comedy Showcase tonight!
—Vee Hua 華婷婷, interim managing editor for the South Seattle Emerald
The adaptation of Claudia Rankine’s book plays at Sound Theatre through July 28
by Georgia McDade
If you believe the Garden of Eden, then you accept that life was peaceful, tranquil. If you also believe the Garden was located in Africa, then perhaps you can accept that the Africans lived peaceful, tranquil lives — at least for a time.
Hoodoo Love is a play about a Black woman’s journey of fear, vulnerability, self-sufficiency, compromise, brokenness, strength, resilience, and life in the face of multi-generational social, economic, and religious oppression and violence.Continue reading On Seeing Hoodoo Love→
Amplifying the Authentic Narratives of South Seattle
