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Ira Aldridge

Arts, Culture & Media

Shakespeare in Blackface

Mar 24, 2018

Ira Aldridge, as Othello, in battle armor, by William Mulready

African American Ira Aldridge, a Shakespearean actor in the early 1800s, honored in England

Aug 3, 2017

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