Month: August 2012

Kenneth Ferdinand: A Conversation on Frenchmen Street at Rose Nicaud (2011)

In the early 1800’s Rose Nicaud became the first known coffee vendor in New Orleans. Rose, a slave, saw the opportunity to provide a service to French Market vendors, workers and shoppers by providing them with fresh, hot coffee. Rose created a portable cart which […]

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CulturalDC Presents Hueman Prophets’ “Read: White and Blue” (2012)

DC’s own hip hop theater duo Hueman Prophets (Baye Harrell and Jabari Exum) team up with director Psalmayene 24 to re-envision their story of a white-collar author struggling to write a book about a blue-collar ex-con. Through hypnotic rhythyms, theplay raises a lingering point about the disconnect within social classes […]

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