Ed Bullins: Master Playwright

Ed Bullins was an African American playwright who played a prominent role in the Black Arts Movement and served as the Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party in the 1960s. He was known for his poetry, short stories. and musicals. He died of complications from dementia in Roxbury in Boston, Massachusetts.

NOTE: This informational blog was compiled by and reprinted with the permission of Abdul Alkalimat, PhD

Obituary
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/obituaries/
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/16/theater/ed-bullins-dead.html
https://thegrio.com/2021/11/17/black-arts-movement-playwright-ed-bullins-dead-86/
https://www.concordtheatricals.com/a/1305/ed-bullins

Bio
https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/ed-bullins-40

Wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Bullins

Archive/papers
https://findingaids.library.emory.edu/documents/bullins1131/

Interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geVgurNDhW4

Award
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pMNEFZuRXg

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This post was previously published on historianspeaks.org.

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