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Portrait of Mary Seacole by Albert Charles Challen (1869) (via National Portrait Gallery/Wikimedia) (click to enlarge) The sculpture on London’s South Bank stands in the gardens of St Thomas’ Hospital ...

Courtesy of Live Arts Theater. “Drury tells this story from a transcendental space within the global Black woman experience. There are particular caregiving experiences that Black women across the ...

A new Royal Mint commemorative coin in honour of Jamaican-British nurse Mary Seacole has been revealed to coincide with the UK’s Black History Month. It is the second coin to feature a named Black ...

The exhibition honours one of history’s most remarkable women ...

Historian Rappaport (After the Romanovs) delivers a doggedly researched biography of Mary Seacole, née Grant (c. 1805–1881), the Jamaican woman whose roles as caregiver, nurse, and shopkeeper during ...

Broadway star and famed singer of the “Reading Rainbow” television show theme song, Tina Fabrique appears alongside local favorite Kim Bey under the direction of beloved local director Eric Ruffin in ...

There are perfect well-made plays. Then there are plays that thrill and incite, refusing to accept simple, neatly-tied solutions. Jackie Sibblies Drury's Marys Seacole is wild, brave, and absolutely ...

This month, Tina Fabrique stars in Mosaic Theater’s “Marys Seacole” now through May 29. “It is about Mary Seacole,” Fabrique told WTOP. “This is her story about her life and her work as a caregiver, ...

Unearthing the obscure legend of an extraordinary real-life 19th-century heroine, Jackie Sibblies Drury’s reflective drama Marys Seacole (★★☆☆☆) introduces its audience to many Marys across the ages. ...

Helen Rappaport’s “In Search of Mary Seacole” gives a Black nursing legend her due. By Linda Villarosa When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate ...

Live Arts Theater’s 2024-2025 Voyages Season continues with the Virginia premiere of “Marys Seacole,” Jackie Sibblies Drury’s time-travelling chronicle inspired by the real-life of Mary Seacole.