I managed to get on jankers (punishment) a couple of times and did a bit of spud bashing.

My shoelace came undone.

As the show opened with the river, singing sirenlike “oooooohs,” the audience settled in.

When racially charged killings in the 1980s unstitched already flimsy race relations in the city, the Slave Theater grew to be more than just a movie house, it became a symbol and center of black activism.