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6 unusual facts about Pearl Cleage


Michael Lomax

His oldest daughter, from a previous marriage to playwright and author Pearl Cleage, Deignan Cleage Lomax, graduated from Dillard University in 2000.

National Black Arts Festival

People of all ages and races have gathered together to bask in the presence of: Maya Angelou, Charles Dutton, Wynton Marsalis, Amiri Baraka, Avery Brooks, Nancy Wilson, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Spike Lee, Ousmane Sembène, Pearl Cleage, Kenny Leon, Carrie Mae Weems, Radcliffe Bailey, Sonia Sanchez and literally thousands of other artists from the USA and around the world.

Nicodemus, Kansas

Pearl Cleage's play Flying West takes place in Nicodemus in the late nineteenth century.

Scott Turner Schofield

Schofield carried out his fellowship at 7 Stages in Atlanta, where he worked as the assistant to French director Eric Vigner on Bernard Marie Koltes' play "In the Solitude of Cotton Fields;" with German actress Anne Tismer on "Gutes Tun/Doing Good Things"; and with American actress/director Crystal Dickinson on Pearl Cleage's play "A Song for Coretta."

Sidewalk Radio

Featured guests have included: U.S. Congressman John Lewis, poet Pearl Cleage, artist Radcliffe Bailey, and Chairman Emeritus of the Atlanta Braves Bill Bartholomay.

The Ensemble Theatre

To do so, it collaborates with and presents works by artists such as Joseph A. Walker, Pearl Cleage, Cheryl L. West and Shay Youngblood.



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