A Downtown Puppet Master Returns With Her Latest Epic - Theodora Skipitares' new spectacle celebrates a pair of pioneering African Americans
Theodora Skipitares' new spectacle celebrates a pair of pioneering African Americans---In an exchange of letters with Thomas Jefferson in 1791, Benjamin Banneker—a free black man, independent farmer, self-taught astronomer and mathematician—argued for racial equality. Jefferson responded: "Nobody wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren, talents …