A collage of personal, political,cultural, and historical commentary from the thought processes of Brandon Wallace.
Monday, March 27, 2006
Do You Know the Broadway Star Anne Wiggins Brown?
This is definitely an interesting story, one which I am just picking up on. From a family of light-skinned blacks--perhaps octoroons, Anne Wiggins Brown was a very talented singer and actress, lending her voice to George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. She married a Norweigan philosopher and, escaping American racism, she and her husband moved to Norway. There, she staged a Norweigan production of Porgy and Bess. She and her children stil reside in Norway.
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