Tag Archive 'day of absence'

Day of Absence at College/University of The Bahamas

Today, Bahamians throughout the capital wore white and called in to talk shows and blogged and wrote letters and imagined what the world would be like if all the artists disappeared.
At the College/University of The Bahamas, art students and literature students and dancers and musicians and their supporters staged a demonstration of solidarity for Bahamian [...]

Day of Absence: February 11

In 1965, an African-American playwright by the name of Douglas Turner Ward wrote a play he called Day of Absence, which told the story of a small town — any small town — in the Deep South in which the white inhabitants discover on a particular day that all the black people have disappeared.
When this fact becomes general [...]

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