Pittsburgh Playhouse uses Shakespeare to examine racism with American Moor

Theater | Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh City Paper: The resume of Keith Hamilton Cobb includes a long list of stage, television, and writing credits, among others. Now Pittsburgh will get to see him in person during his latest production of American Moor. It's a work, which he wrote, as well as performs, that asks big questions about representation and racism in the theater industry.

‘The heat is on’: top theatres act to root out ‘system failure’ of racism

Theatre | The Guardian: The Young Vic and Royal Court theatres have entered into a pioneering consultation process that aims to identify and root out systemic racism from their venues. The artistic directors of both London institutions have signed up to a two-year partnership with the social enterprise Sour Lemons that will interrogate the internal structures that uphold institutional racism, raise awareness and accountability, and listen to staff’s experiences of racism inside the buildings.

Anti-Racism and the Institution

HowlRound Theatre Commons: This past summer you may have noticed one very clear intention mobilize across the New York and American regional theatre communities: to signal justice. In rapid succession, statements of varying lengths committing to institutional solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement have populated our inboxes and social spaces from arts organizations across the country. But what will become of this? Why now, and what next?

RISD launches Race in Art & Design cluster-hire for anti-racism initiative

www.dezeen.com: Rhode Island School of Design is hiring 10 faculty members that specialise in issues of race and decoloniality in the arts, architecture and design as part of its wider plan to tackle systemic racism in the school. RISD's Race in Art & Design cluster-hire initiative includes four roles in the school's Liberal Arts and Experimental and Foundation Studies divisions, three in Architecture and Design and three in Fine Arts.