A Historic Black Theater Steps into the Future

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A Historic Black Theater Steps into the Future
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.NatBlackTheatre's sadelythcott111 and jaymc86 join playwright Ngozi Anyanwu to discuss what comes next for the iconic institution FutureRising 🙌.

Since 1968, New York’s National Black Theatre has provided a space for Black voices and stories to not only exist, but flourish. Founded by Dr. Barbara Ann Teer, a performer, director, and figurehead of the Black Arts Movement, it boasts an important legacy of being the country’s first revenue-generating Black art complex and was recently included in the permanent collection of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.

The mission of the National Black Theatre really comes out of the principles of the Black Arts Movement, which really roots Black liberation as the center of all things that we get to produce and build. Her real focal point around Black liberation was tapping into the PTSD of the slave block through the auction aspect of the slave block, which is what she thought was analogous to the audition room.

I'm still latching onto what it means to make a Black home for the future of Blackness and of humanness.

In the middle of that, my playwriting career really took off. Right, Jonathan? I feel like you were there when I got the call for the Humanitas Award, so Jonathan was really there pre-all the fancy stuff. I really saw the trials and tribulations of being a Black organization and was like,"Oh, they need some more freaking resources.

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