Damon Dahlen/HuffPost Carvens Lissaint, who plays George Washington in "Hamilton," at the Richard Rodgers Theatre in New York. Lissaint learned early from his father what it meant to be black in a white world. “He seemed untouchable.” While the story of “Hamilton” centers on the conflict between Hamilton and Burr, Washington is a particularly attention-grabbing character. “While important victories were being won by black activists, the concerns of black Americans did not immediately translate into Broadway productions that explored serious black issues,” historian Stewart Lane writes in Black Broadway: African Americans on the Great White Way. A coalition of artists started the Broadway for Black Lives Matter Collective, which put on one event for Black Lives Matter ― a concert in August 2016.

Source: Huffington Post January 03, 2019 00:33 UTC