AMERICAN THEATRE

WHEN KWAME WAS STOKELY

We’re all slightly different people around family, or others who know us well. With , at Chicago’s Court Theatre May 24-June 16, play-wright Nambi E. Kelley hopes to examine that very human truth in telling the story of activist Kwame Ture, born Stokely Carmichael in

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