The press release says many leading voices in the world of arts and letters are protesting the Supremes' forthcoming tour of South Africa. Joan Sandler, Executive Director of the Black Theatre Alliance, has written to the Supremes on behalf of over 30 theatre and dance companies urge them to cancel their upcoming engagement. Ann Early, Executive Director of Writers in Residence, wrote the Supremes on behalf of five teenage repertory companies and 1000 patron members with the same message, as did Marcia Ann Gillespie, Editor-in-chief of Essence, saying Black people "need never again sing for 'massa'." The press release quotes Robert S. Browne, Director of the Black Economic Research Center,...
The press release says many leading voices in the world of arts and letters are protesting the Supremes' forthcoming tour of South Africa. Joan Sandler, Executive Director of the Black Theatre Alliance, has written to the Supremes on behalf of over 30 theatre and dance companies urge them to cancel their upcoming engagement. Ann Early, Executive Director of Writers in Residence, wrote the Supremes on behalf of five teenage repertory companies and 1000 patron members with the same message, as did Marcia Ann Gillespie, Editor-in-chief of Essence, saying Black people "need never again sing for 'massa'." The press release quotes Robert S. Browne, Director of the Black Economic Research Center, and says the appeal to the Supremes is part of the ten-year-old "We Say No to Apartheid" campaign of the American Committee on Africa.
