Wilson was still struggling with the ending during the summer of 1989, but he took time off to attend the first National Black Theatre Festival in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The six-day event was the brainchild of Larry Leon Hamlin, artistic director of the North Carolina Black Repertory Company. Hamlin enlisted poet Maya Angelou as chairwoman, and the two ultimately raised $600,000 for a festival that attracted ten thousand people with thirty performances by seventeen Black theater companies. Wilson and television mogul Oprah Winfrey were the guests of honor at the opening-night gala,
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This sounds amazing. I was born in the wrong era.
