A few years ago, Jordan E. Cooper, the youngest American playwright in Broadway history, was at a 7-Eleven getting a red Slurpee next to a police officer. As Cooper went to grab for the lever of the Slurpee machine, the officer reached for his gun.
history). In a series of vignettes, Cooper wonders what would happen if all Black Americans left on a plane for Africa.
Cooper grew up outside Fort Worth, Texas, in a big football-dominated community, and while he played sports growing up as well “I was a kid at basketball practice, reading Wicked [on the sidelines],” he says. He came to New York to study at The New School and remembers walking by The Public the day he moved to the city.
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