13
Jun/20

92Y CONFRONTS HATE: ANNA DEAVERE SMITH IN CONVERSATION WITH EW’s SARAH RODMAN

13
Jun/20
Anna Deavere Smith and Sarah Rodman will discuss in live 92Y talk

Anna Deavere Smith and Sarah Rodman will discuss hate and inequality in livestreamed 92Y talk

Who: Anna Deavere Smith, Sarah Rodman
What: Live discussion about hate and inequality
Where: 92Y YouTube
When: Monday, June 15, free (donations accepted), 7:00
Why: In March 1994, actress, playwright, teacher, and author Anna Deavere Smith wrote and starred in her Tony-nominated one-woman show Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, in which she portrayed dozens of characters to tell the story of the 1992 LA riots after the acquittal of police officers charged in the beating of Rodney King. Late last year, the Signature Theatre revived Smith’s Fires in the Mirror, about the 1991 Crown Heights riots following the death of seven-year-old Gavin Cato. (The Signature was scheduled to revive Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 this spring, but it was canceled because of the Covid-19 crisis.) So the Baltimore-born Smith should have a lot to say about what is happening in America when she sits down for a conversation on June 15 at 7:00 with EW’s Sarah Rodman as part of the 92nd St. Y’s Confronting Hate initiative. You can prep for the free event by watching the filmed version of Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 on PBS, while Smith’s latest work, Notes from the Field, which explores racial injustice in the school-to-prison pipeline, is available on HBO. “92Y Confronts Hate” began on June 7 with the panel “The Politics of the Pandemic,” followed June 8 with Rabbi Peter Rubinstein and Reverend Jacques Andre DeGraff discussing “Building Bridges: Is it Possible?” and continues June 17 with “Directly from France” with Rabbi Delphine Horvilleur and Rabbi Rubinstein and June 18 with “Praying with Our Hearts, Hands, and Feet,” in which Rabbi Rubinstein will be joined by Imam Al-Hajj Talib ’Abdur-Rashid.