<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica-w01-light, helvetica-w02-light, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><font size="5">New play focusing on the events leading up to and after the murder of Booker T. Spicely, following the 80th anniversary of his death.</font></span><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font size="5"><br class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="font-family: helvetica-w01-light, helvetica-w02-light, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: helvetica-w01-light, helvetica-w02-light, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">On July 8th,1944, Private Spicely was headed back home to Camp Butner after enjoying an evening in the Hayti neighborhood of Durham. He was unaware it would be his last. In the darkness of that night, he would become yet another victim of Jim Crow “justice.”</span><br class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="font-family: helvetica-w01-light, helvetica-w02-light, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><br class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="font-family: helvetica-w01-light, helvetica-w02-light, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: helvetica-w01-light, helvetica-w02-light, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">The play was commissioned by The Booker T. Spicely Committee, funded by Duke Energy and co-produced by StreetSigns Center for Literature and Performance, Mike Wiley Productions, and The Kenan Institute for Ethics’ America’s Hallowed Ground Project.</span><br><br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font size="5">Performed at UNC-Swain (Nov 7-10)</font></div><div dir="ltr"><div style="display: block;" class=""><div style="-webkit-user-select: all; -webkit-user-drag: element; display: inline-block;" class="apple-rich-link" draggable="true" role="link" data-url="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/changing-same-the-cold-blooded-murder-of-booker-t-spicely-unc-tickets-1010808785287?utm_experiment=test_share_listing&aff=ebdsshios"><a style="border-radius:10px;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;display:block;-webkit-user-select:none;width:300px;user-select:none;-webkit-user-modify:read-only;user-modify:read-only;overflow:hidden;text-decoration:none;" class="lp-rich-link" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/changing-same-the-cold-blooded-murder-of-booker-t-spicely-unc-tickets-1010808785287?utm_experiment=test_share_listing&aff=ebdsshios" dir="ltr" role="button" draggable="false" width="300"><table style="table-layout:fixed;border-collapse:collapse;width:300px;background-color:#E9E9EB;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="lp-rich-link-emailBaseTable" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="300"><tbody><tr><td vertical-align="center"><table bgcolor="#E9E9EB" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="300" style="font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;table-layout:fixed;background-color:rgba(233, 233, 235, 1);" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:8px 0px 8px 0px;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStackItem"><div style="max-width:100%;margin:0px 16px 0px 16px;overflow:hidden;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; font-weight: 500; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-align: left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-topCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/changing-same-the-cold-blooded-murder-of-booker-t-spicely-unc-tickets-1010808785287?utm_experiment=test_share_listing&aff=ebdsshios" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false"><font color="#000000" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" size="5">Changing Same: The Cold-Blooded Murder of Booker T. 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