Within the first eight minutes of “The Black Emperor of Broadway,” I was moved from critiquing every frame of the film to embracing the story. The show opens with us catching the lead character, Shaun Parkes as Charles Gilpin, expressing anger for having to put on blackface to do his job as a performer. Gilpin eventually became the first Black to play the lead in a Broadway show, and in natural face, in “The Emperor Jones.” Eugene O'Neill, son of Irish immigrants, wrote “The Emperor Jones,” which ran on Broadway in 1920. Click to Read the Whole Story.
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