Category: Historian

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  Dale Ricardo Shields is a prominent theater educator, historian, archivist, and director whose work focuses on using theater and digital preservation as tools for social justice, education, and …

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The Sugar Land 95* – SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME.

by  DALE RICARDO SHIELDS    Honoring the lives and legacy of 95 individuals discovered in unmarked graves at a former sugar plantation and prison farm in Sugar Land, Texas.  In early 2018, construction workers in Sugar Land, Texas, unearthed a forgotten cemetery containing the remains of 95 individuals in unmarked graves. These remains, collectively known …

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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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