Actor Wendell Pierce on Katrina, Art as Activism, Challenging Confederate History, and New Orleans' Future.
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I spoke with Wendell Pierce - most famous for his HBO series roles in The Wire and  Treme -  on the closing weekend of Brothers from the Bottom, a critically-acclaimed play about gentrification in New Orleans after the storm, in which Pierce played a lead role both on stage and in production.
By Talmon J. Smith, ContributorNYU Arthur Carter Institute Associate; Fellow at the Center fo..., 2015-08-29