"Lessons on Solidarity" produced by MultiStages/Lorca Peress
A play by Gena Bardwell, directed by Kimille Howard, featuring Messeret Stroman Wheeler.
A personal story about a once in a life-time meeting of an Iconic activist at her grandfather's famous African-American book shop in the heart of Los Angeles. Through Bardwell's pre-teen eyes, we learn how meeting Angela Davis significantly impacted her young life. Looking back on that moment in time, in the turbulent 1970's, she grapples with questions and the need for answers that escaped her on that life-changing day spent with her learned grandfather, Frank James Whitley and an authentic Black goddess who took her breath away.