EVENTS: Get your Black History Month on!

Our Black History Month roundup includes Branch: A Baseball Legend @ Society Hill Playhouse, "After Tanner: African American Artists since 1940" @ PAFA, Imagine Africa Free Community Day and Voices of Africa @ the Penn Museum, and Tasting Freedom at Musehouse.

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EVENTS: Get your Black History Month on!

POSTED: Wednesday, February 1, 2012, 12:02 PM

Filed Under: Events | Just Do It

City Paper's fabulous A&E interns (and a couple seasoned contributors) share a month's worth of Black History Month picks.

✚ Branch: A Baseball Legend by Michael Gold

In 1947, Jackie Robinson (pictured left) made history when he stepped on the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers to become the first black Major League Baseball player. Two years before that, though, Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey (pictured right) signed Robinson to a minor-league team with the hopes of breaking baseball’s unwritten color barrier. Robinson’s story is well-known and oft–told, so it’s Rickey who is the focus of local playwright Walt Vail’s Branch: A Baseball Legend, playing this month at Society Hill Playhouse.

Feb. 2-26, $25, Society Hill Playhouse, 507 S. Eighth St., 215-923-0210, societyhillplayhouse.org.

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