Center Stage’s Kwame Kwei-Armah on ‘One Night in Miami’

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December 23, 2014 – Segment 2

Center Stage Artistic Director Kwame Kwei-Armah joins us to talk  about the upcoming production of playwright Kemp Powers historic dramatization, One Night in Miami. The play tells the story of the the events that unfolded on the evening of February 25th, 1964, as friends Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, Jim Brown  and Cassius Clay celebrate Clay’s upset victory over Sonny Liston.

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