Opinion: Focus on Black inclusion should last more than a month On a Friday night in May 1922, a 36-year-old Black woman named Lulu Anderson walked up to the Metropolitan Theatre on Jasper Avenue to see a play titled The Lion and the Mouse. She had the money and the ticket. But she did not have the complexion the management preferred. She was denied entry, assaulted, humiliated, and turned away.

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Edmonton Journal

Alvin Ntibinyane