Anna Deavere Smith
The actor, professor and playwright on her one-woman show about race, education and criminal justice
How did coming from a family of educators shape your perspective on education? I grew up in Baltimore, a town that was just coming out of segregated schools. Education was about progress and community and love. My mother taught really poor kids. Even though we were all, at the time, Negroes, there was a clarity for me about my situation and the situation of
