After that, she turned more of her writing to the African-American experience.

"There's more to the African-American experience than what we're seeing now in movies," he said.

He's writing one play for every decade of the African-American experience.

"This way, tourists can get the best part, about the essence of the African-American spiritual experience."

"I used to be very interested, as a composer, in documenting the African-American experience," he said.

These stories combine comedy with bleak observations on the African-American experience.

During those years, she already planned creating a museum about the African-American experience, to tell the history she never learned in school.

In the last 20 years other authors have written picture books about the African-American experience that are even more explicitly filled with longing.

They have to realize that the African-American experience is not all happy endings.

The plays document the African-American experience in the 20th century, and each is set in a different decade.