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‘Shakespeare was a Black woman’: the playwright’s under-recognized connection to Black culture

A new Washington DC exhibition examines how Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou and more used the Bard’s work to help tell their own stories “William Shakespeare was a black woman.” In 1985, Maya Angelou spok…

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The Guardian United Kingdom · 18 October 2026

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