"The Octoroon" tells the late of when In the deep south of 1850's USA, an octoroon is given her freedom by her white father but is later bought as a slave by the evil Jacob McCloskey. Advertisement ...

So it proves here, as the old gang of MERG – the self-deprecatingly named Multi-Ethnic Rejects’ Group – assemble ahead of ...

“Everybody” is a modern day adaptation of the 15th century morality play “Everyman.” In the medieval version, the title ...

and to recognize none below the grade of octoroon as eligible to any office whatever under the Federal Government? And has not Chief Justice TANEY been forced, by fear of premature death and ...

Jenkins’ APPROPRIATE reopened at the Belasco Theater tonight, Wednesday, April 10. Check out new photos of the production ...

Jacobs-Jenkins is a Brooklyn-based playwright and producer and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist. Recent theater credits ...

The laws generally define such a person as "having one-eighth or more Negro blood" or as an "octoroon." The other definition of Negro is used in at least six states: a Negro is any person who has ...

Van Buren’s vice president, Colonel Richard Mentor Johnson, lived with an octoroon slave woman as congressman and senator a five-minute walk from the slave market in Washington for 25 years.

All of London life doesn’t quite materialise in an epic take on Dickens with music by PJ Harvey; a university reunion digs ...

Identity — personal, national, political — is damaged, difficult and confused. And there’s something bigger still at work: ...