De'Aris Rhymes on what the Black arts movement can teach Shakespeare theater companies

"I’m Black and I’m proud: What the Black arts movement can teach Shakespeare theater companies in a post-2020 America" presented by De'Aris Rhymes on January 23, 2026 at Love: A RaceB4Race Symposium. Arizona State University. Tempe, Arizona. RaceB4Race is a cross-institutional scholarly community for scholars and students of premodern critical race studies. Bridging many traditional disciplinary divides, RaceB4Race not only creates innovative scholarly dialogues, but also fosters professional development and structural change within the many fields of premodern studies. As a model for what a horizontally organized learned society can do for its community, RaceB4Race looks to Arizona State University's charter, measuring ourselves not by whom we exclude, but by whom we include and how they succeed. The Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) was established in 1981 by the Arizona Board of Regents as a state-wide, tri-university research unit that bridges the intellectual communities at Arizona State University, Northern Arizona University, and the University of Arizona. Located centrally on the campus of Arizona State University, ACMRS is charged with coordinating and stimulating interdisciplinary research about medieval and early modern literature and culture. Subscribe to our channel:    / @acmrs_asu