Neighbors

play by Jacobs-Jenkins

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  • Tony Award winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
    In Branden Jacobs-Jenkins: Theater and writing career

    …New York staged Jacobs-Jenkins’s play Neighbors, in which the Crows, a Black family adorned in blackface, move to the suburbs next door to an interracial couple and their daughter. The play reflected Jacobs-Jenkins’s interest in minstrelsy and became a cause célèbre; The New York Times interviewed attendees who walked out…

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