A Shakespeare scholar claims to have found evidence supporting a suggestion made in the 1930s that she was a madam called "Lucy Negro" or "Black Luce", who ran a notorious bawdy house in Clerkenwell.

When they do Shakespeare, it’s not just ‘let’s put Black people onstage doing Shakespeare,’ it’s also doing it the correct ...

Guess what, though: My reading is a proud Black fist! Was it racist, above all, to have never exposed me to Shakespeare in high school? To have said, in effect, Black kids like me don’t need him ...

On Baldwin's would-be 100th birthday, the author of a Shakespeare adaptation series reflects on how the Black icon impacted her reading of the Bard Nisha Sharma is a YA and adult contemporary ...

Welles adapted Shakespeare’s text himself, significantly revising details, moving the setting from Scotland to Haiti and featuring an all-Black cast. In his staging, Welles also swapped medieval ...

In 1938, the library’s director, Joseph Quincy Adams, denied a request by Benjamin Brawley, a professor at Howard University, for tickets to the annual Shakespeare Birthday Lecture. While Black ...