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A white librettist wrote an opera about Emmett Till – and some critics are calling for its cancellation

  • Written by Anita Gonzalez, Professor of African American Studies and Performing Arts, Co-Founder/Director Racial Justice Institute, Georgetown University
imageA faded photograph is attached to the headstone that marks the gravesite of Emmett Till in Chicago.Scott Olson/Getty Images

“Are Black audiences, actors, and producers simply conditioned to having their stories told by white counterparts?” screenwriter and director Darian Lane, who is Black, wondered in a 2021 op-ed for Ebony.

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