66th birthday of Thulani Davis

(Born 19 July 1949, Hampton, Virginia, US)

Award-winning playwright, novelist, journalist, poet, librettist, outstanding works include My Confederate Kinfolk (2006) on family history with immense national and wider resonance, The Souls of Black Folk (2003), a play on adaptation of WEB Du Bois’s classic of the same title, All the Renegade Ghosts Rise (poems: 1978), Playing the Changes (poems: 1985) and writes the libretti to two operas she collaborates with cousin and composer/pianist Anthony Davis: X (1986) on the life of Malcolm X and Amistad (1997) on the 1839 enslaved African maritime freedom uprising

(Anthony Davis, Middle Passage [{“Behind the rock”, “Middle passage”, “Particle W”, “A proposition for life”}, personnel: Davis, composer {all tracks – except “Particle W”, composed by Earl Howard}, piano, electronic tape; recorded: Gramavision, New York, US, 1984])

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