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For Colored Girls
Biography: Jackie Robinson"
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Arts & Entertainment Network (A & E) continues its fifth successful season of
BIOGRAPHY with the world Premiere of an A & E/CEL Communications co-
iroduction, JACKIE ROBINSON on Tuesday, April 16, 1991 at 8 pm and 12
midnight, ET. This documentary on the life and times o f baseball’s courageous
noneer is hosted and narrated by Peter Graves.
Jackie Robinson was an all-star college athlete in baseball, football, basketball
nd track. With his dramatic entrance into professional baseball in 1947, he broke
the sport’s color barrier and by his very presence turned the National League into
forum for the civil rights movement. From his struggles against injustice in the
military through his civil rights marches with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Jackie
iobinson was an American hero whose accomplishments went far beyond the
lallpark.
Executive Producer of BIOGRAPHY: JACKIE ROBINSON is Charles Grinker,
CEL’s Creative Director.
A Talented Threesome - Ntozake Shange, left, author of the highly acclaimed
For Colored Girls...performs in the new poetic, music, dance and theatrical work,
A sense of Breath, during its recent debut at the Whitney Museum of Art at Philip
Morris. With Shange arc collaborators and fellow performers, choreographer/
dancer, Mickey Davidson and vocalist/composer, Jeanne Lee. The original work
opened both the branch museum’s Performance on 42 Street, Spring 1991 presen
tation of “ 8 in 7: New Ventures in American Music,” and the Fifth Annual Fes
tival of Women Improvisers. Shange is currently a writer in residence at the Mary
land Institute College of Art in Baltimore. Her upcoming projects include the pres
entation of her adaptation (with Emily Mann and Bakida Carroll) of Betsey Brown:
A Rhythm and Blues Musical, at McCarter Theatre. A collection of her poetry, The
Love Space Demands, is scheduled for publication in the spring of 1991. The
Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris is funded by Philip Morris
Companies Inc.
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