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...this explaining [my African-American heritage] as adding to the daily psychic warfare that being a Black woman in America already is," said Tamara D. Duckworth...
...This whole sort of melting pot thing is an idea," says Tamara D. Duckworth '91-'92. "I think the diversity thing is an experiment, and we're not sure if it's going to work yet. We still have to come to terms with what it means in the country as a whole...
...play, written by Andretta Hamilton '91 and Melanie Williams '91, takes place at a Black college in 1964. Evelyn (Tamara Duckworth) is a young woman who must choose between two men: the wealthy, philandering Charlie (Randal Jean Baptiste), and the militant civil rights activist Ian (Bernard B. Fulton III). Both men expect her to show fidelity and solidarity toward their respective stances on civil rights. Evelyn must decide whether to finish school and fight segregation from within, as Charlie does, or to protest and risk arrest with...
...Duckworth's Evelyn is too strong-willed to be as confused as she is throughout the play, although her conviction makes the jarring ending somewhat credible. Mecca Nelson brings life to the flat, emotionless Ruth, Evelyn's roommate. Tim Nelson's cameo as a radical, energetic speaker captures the emotional tension of the civil rights movement, and he succeeds in making his dogmatic lines interesting and even inspirational...
...want to be completely silent on the way down, but once we get into The Stadium we want to explode into chants," Tamara D. Duckworth '91 told fellow marchers before heading toward the Harvard-Yale game...