A BLACK CAMERA INTERVIEW: YORUBA RICHEN

Besides the Paul Robeson piece, Here I Stand (1999), he also did a piece called The Black and the Green (nd?) about the trip that a group of black activists took to Northern Ireland, where he connected the struggles of the Irish to the black struggle, which I thought was brilliant. First of all, I want to say that, as an African American woman who has been afforded opportunities, it gives me perhaps a deeper perspective on social justice issues-what they are about, how they are played out, and how to contextualize them. According to the materials you sent us before your campus visit, Promised Land is about "Race, land, and reconciliation in post-apartheid South Africa." [...]there are many people of mixed race in Brazil.