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According to Department of Afro-American Studies Chair Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr., who moderated the event, the two writers were brought together because of their work on Venus Hottentot, a South African woman who was brought to Europe in the 19th century after being told she would be a dancer, but was instead caged, exhibited and prodded by doctors...
Alexander began the reading, reciting poetry representative of her entire oeuvre, including “The Venus Hottentot, 1825,” as well as poems based on dreams from her Antebellum Dream Book...
...Number of consecutive Grand Slam finals in which Venus and Serena Williams have faced each other, the most of any pair in the history of Open tennis. Serena, 4; Venus...
When 2002 began, there were only two players in women's tennis who mattered: Venus and Serena Williams. Now there's only one. Serena took the last three Grand Slam events of the year, besting her older sister in all three, and crowned herself undisputed queen of the courts. She's the Tiger of tennis--and she has the cat suits to prove...
...native wrote at age 17, was selected from 1,500 entries to be performed off-Broadway at the Young Playwrights Festival. The New York Times called it “terrific stuff, stunning from a teenage writer,” and Seventeen magazine featured her alongside Josh Hartnett and Venus Williams as one of Seventeen Voices for a New World. She’s also appeared in numerous plays put on by downtown Manhattan luminaries, though she claims to not know...