Playwright Jordan E. Cooper launched the hashtag SaveAintNoMo in a campaign to rescue his production.
Emmy winner Lena Waithe, meanwhile, helped host the show this week. Waithe had recently joined the list of powerhouse producers behind “Ain’t No Mo,’” which also includesThen, in an update at Thursday night’s show, Cooper announced that the production’s Broadway run had been extended,“Ain’t No Mo’” premiered in 2019 at The Public Theater in New York and earned Cooper a special citation at the Obie Awards, which recognizes off-broadway and off-off-Broadway productions.
“I remember reaching upward to get a red slushie, and the police officer there tapped his gun and winked at me,” Cooper said, recalling that the incident happened around the time that Alton Sterling and Philando Castile had been fatally shot by police in July 2016.“If Black people give so much to this country, then why are they considered worthless?” he said he asked himself at the time.
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