Love in black and white

Martha Sandweiss examines racial passing in America

Published in the Apr. 22, 2009, issue

Clarence King, a celebrated explorer, geologist, and surveyor in 19th-century America, chose to set that identity aside — and live as a working-class black man during a time of harsh racial segregation in the United States. He did it for love. King moved...Read more

Making theater more diverse

Susan Jonas ’81 advocates for female playwrights and directors

Published in the Apr. 22, 2009, issue

Last fall, when a group of female playwrights met in New York to complain that few theaters were staging plays by women, Susan Jonas ’81 might have been excused for having a sense of déjà vu. In 2002, as an analyst with the New York State Council on the Arts,...Read more