Tracey Scott Wilson’s Struggles in Writing ‘The Good Negro’

NYTimes.com: "She tried to start “The Good Negro” several times, but the subject was always a stumbling block. The play, which begins previews on Tuesday at the Public Theater, imagines a troubled moment in the American civil rights movement, when an act of intolerance leads to riots and hate crimes in Birmingham, Ala., in 1963. Three black leaders try to rally their community, but their efforts are hampered not only by the K.K.K. and the F.B.I., but also by their own classism, infighting and vice."