Black Guerilla Family, "Flags of Maryland", Kwame Kwei-Armah's "Beneatha's Place"




WYPR: Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast Podcast show

Summary: The Black Guerilla Family hit the headlines two weeks ago when Tavon White, other inmates and 13 corrections officers were indicted for criminal gang activity at the Baltimore jail. But, B.G.F.’s history reaches back five decades when Black Panther George Jackson started a revolutionary organization to protect prisoner rights. We learn what part of that political ideology is still visible here in Baltimore. Then, our series "Flags of Maryland" continues. We learn why Queenstown, on the Eastern Shore, chose to create a flag, and hear from an artist who has stolen flags for projects. And, CENTERSTAGE artistic director Kwame Kwei-Armah on his new play "Beneatha's Place," a world premiere tonight. It continues "The Raisin Cycle."