Wendell Pierce On Parenting, The Pandemic And Reckoning With The Past

'Wendell Pierce stars in a new production of Some Old Black Man. In the the play by James Anthony Tyler, Pierce plays a college professor who moves his elderly father into his New York City apartment.  His father, played by Charlie Robinson of Night Court fame, was a taxi driver in Mississippi. It's "the classic confrontation of father and son," says Pierce. Aspects of the story hit close to home for the award-winning actor. Pierce says he recognized, only later in life, many of the ways in which his own father tried to shield him from the traumatic experiences of the older generation.' -- Morning Edition