tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7831313018108895664.post9028050651325880130..comments2024-03-18T02:14:06.920-07:00Comments on Donloe's Lowdown: Phillip Hayes Dean Talks About His One-Man Play, 'Paul Robeson', Set To Open At Ebony RepUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7831313018108895664.post-89574520314448953232017-10-17T06:19:39.304-07:002017-10-17T06:19:39.304-07:00His grandfather, after whom he was named, was one ...His grandfather, after whom he was named, was one of perhaps three brothers who were property owners and who were armed, in or near Coahoma County, MS, and who married into a family of schoolteachers--and who had to leave the State. Thus, like Rockefellers. (It mignt have been the preceding generation--Hayes was born 1890 or 1891.)Stuarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12964551009610365417noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7831313018108895664.post-37380396754094119592014-06-10T19:16:39.833-07:002014-06-10T19:16:39.833-07:00Is it just me or does anyone hear an angry old man...Is it just me or does anyone hear an angry old man with paranoid ramblings and misogynistic accusations, and selective memory? Adrienne Kennedy comes to mind, or Lorraine Hansberry, or any number of other talented black women who have been writing for decades in answer to your question about female writers, but then with Dean's 50 year history in NY theater circles he certainly should have known that-no I take that back, he did know better, at least at one time.<br /><br />The assertion that his family were like Rockefellers speaks to ignorance or plain stupidity; what black family in America was comparable financially to the great JohnD and his descendants, and why if his family was so rich would they have needed to move to Michigan for factory jobs? <br /><br />Perhaps a little vetting before posting an article full of this kind of nonsense from a confused old man would give more credence to the former body of work he did produce, rather than tarnishing what legacy he once had, with this prolonged tirade masquerading as an interview.lwenhtshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02183330698456740282noreply@blogger.com