National Black Theater
2031 Fifth Ave. between 125th St. & 126th Sts.
Tuesday, May 11, $10, 7:00
www.facebook.com/pages/The-Day-Eazy-E-Died
www.imagenation.us
In 1995, Compton rapper Eazy-E, born Eric Lynn Wright in 1963, died of AIDS at the age of thirty-one. The profound effect the influential performer, producer, and member of N.W.A had is central to James Earl Hardy’s book THE DAY EAZY-E DIED, now being turned into a film, about a young Harlem man whose life is turned inside out when Eazy-E’s illness goes public. On Tuesday, May 11, Hardy, writer-director Kirk Shannon-Butts, producer Trevite Willis, and musical genius Daniel Bernard Roumain will come together for a special multimedia screenplay reading at the National Black Theater, followed by a Q&A and reception. The evening is hosted by ImageNation, an organization that “fosters media equity, media literacy, solidarity, cross-cultural exchange and highlights the humanity of Pan-African people worldwide.”