She NYC Arts Summer Theater Festival - The Bookstore

The Bookstore
By Nancy Marie

The greatest weapon against ignorance is a book.

Mark Lee Johnson’s attempt to fulfill his dream of meeting Malcolm X and getting his autograph leads him to the bookstore of Sister Ura Shazad in Harlem, and an immediate and seemingly unbreakable bond forms between them after they witness Malcolm’s assassination. But three years later, Mark Lee returns to the bookstore – this time, as an inside agent in the COINTELPRO operation launched against Black-owned bookstores. How long will Mark Lee last before he’s caught by those who thought they could trust him? This play is loosely based on and in memory of Sister Una Mulzac and the Liberation Bookstore.

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