Posted on 06/10/2020 12:59:29 PM PDT by EdnaMode
The first annual Antonyo Awards honoring black Broadway and Off Broadway theater artists is set for streaming on June 19 (aka Juneteenth, the date commemorating the end of slavery in America).
Created by Broadway Black, a multimedia organization that includes a website and podcast, the new awards ceremony will feature presenters and performers including Audra McDonald, Tituss Burgess, Alex Newell, Jordan E. Cooper, Teyonah Parris, Ephraim Sykes, LaChanze, Derrick Baskin, Nicolette Robinson, Jelani Alladin, Christiani Pitts, James Monroe Iglehart, Amber Iman, Kalen Allen, Nzinga Williams, Jackson Alexander, Cody Renard Richard, Ashton Muñiz, Shereen Pimentel, Kirsten Childs, Aisha Jackson, Antoine L. Smith, Griffin Matthews, Michael McElroy, Jocelyn Bioh and L Morgan Lee.
Online voting is open to the public through midnight Friday, June 12. Four special “Kinfolk Awards” – the Lorraine Hansberry Award, the Langston Hughes Award, Welcome Award and The Doors of the Theatre are Open Award – will be presented to members of the black theatre community as well as a Lifetime Achievement Award to be announced prior to the event.
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So...awards based solely on race is not racist?
(aka Juneteenth, the date commemorating the end of slavery in America)
I think it’s actually the day Texas slaves were told they’d been emancipated 18 months earlier...I could be mistaken.
Yes. I believe Junteenth is a Texas thing.
Given that it’s for Blacks only will there be white people picketing outside?
They’s now nationalized it.
They’ve now nationalized it.
When will we have the Straight Male Actor Theater Awards?
Good question.
Why is Jussie Smollett missing from the list. Isn’t he the most famous of all?
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