Category: BLACK HISTORY

Hispanic and Latino Broadway Theater – A Syncopated History on the Great White Way

     A Syncopated History                             on the                                       Great White Way* Hispanic and Latino Broadway Theater   by DALE RICARDO SHIELDS    Hispanic …

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Dale Ricardo Shields – Biography

Dale Ricardo Shields BIOGRAPHY Actor* Director* Educator* Producer* –  Artistic Activist BFA / MFA – Ohio University Broadway, Off-Broadway, LORT, Film, Television AEA-AFTRA/SAG-AGMA – Phi Kappa Phi    Notable distinctions include: Recipient of the 2021 Paul Robeson Award. Winner of the 2017 Kennedy Center/Stephen Sondheim Inspirational Teacher Award. Received the 2022 Ohio University Legend Award. …

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House of Reformation and Instruction for Colored Children

by DALE RICARDO SHIEDS – The House of Reformation and Instruction for Colored Children, established in 1870 in Cheltenham, Maryland, was the first juvenile reformatory for Black boys in the American South. Originally intended to remove Black youth from adult prisons, it became a site of systemic abuse, forced labor, and severe neglect for decades.  …

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The Central Park Five

  The CENTRAL PARK FIVE by DALE RICARDO SHIELDS Five young teenagers who were wrongfully convicted as teenagers for the 1989 assault and rape of a jogger in New York City. After serving between six and 13 years in prison, they were fully exonerated in 2002 when the actual perpetrator confessed and DNA evidence confirmed …

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The Orangeburg Massacre

  THE            ORANGEBURG                             MASSACRE    by DALE RICARDO SHIELDS “One of the deadliest yet least acknowledged acts of state violence of the Civil Rights Movement.“   In 1968, police opened fire on students at South Carolina State …

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