The novels follow a boy called Harry Potter as he attends Hogwarts (a school for wizards), and battles Lord Voldemort.
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Rowling concluded the Harry Potter series with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007). Six sequels followed, and by 2008, Forbes had named her the world's highest-paid author. The seven-year period that followed saw the death of her mother, the birth of her first child, divorce from her first husband, and relative poverty until the first novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, was published in 1997. She writes Cormoran Strike, an ongoing crime fiction series, under the alias Robert Galbraith.īorn in Yate, Gloucestershire, Rowling was working as a researcher and bilingual secretary for Amnesty International in 1990 when she conceived the idea for the Harry Potter series while on a delayed train from Manchester to London.
The Casual Vacancy (2012) was her first novel for adults. The series has sold over 600 million copies, been translated into 84 languages, and spawned a global media franchise including films and video games. She wrote Harry Potter, a seven-volume children's fantasy series published from 1997 to 2007. Rowling, is a British author and philanthropist. “I wanted to create a piece that had more depth, girth, and truth.Joanne Rowling CH OBE FRSL ( / ˈ r oʊ l ɪ ŋ/ "rolling" born 31 July 1965), best known by her pen name J. K. There’s a piece called ‘Two Americas’ where we don’t know whether we’re in 1963 or 2021 because I wanted to overlap the bridge march and the insurrection,” she says. “There’s a song, ‘Dear Black Man,’ sung by the women in the show. Then, after George Floyd was killed by police officers in Minneapolis, she updated Selma again. To maintain an outlet for herself and the artists during the shut-down, Haynes pivoted to producing digital content. The company grew to include more than a dozen actors and a band by the time the pandemic hit. “The idea that you can’t save everyone is a lazy thought to me,” he says. By the end of the musical, Joe has a change of heart.Īlexander says that for him, the musical is a reminder of what people can achieve when they come together. A type of character rarely seen in depictions of the civil rights movement, he gives voice to those who viewed King and his companions as mere publicity seekers. Throughout the show, Joe is resistant to the presence of outsiders in his hometown.
Melissa Davidson (far left) and the Selma cast at a concert performance.īy 2019, the actor Quintin Alexander, who hails from Fulton, Mississippi, joined the cast to play Connie’s brother, Joe. Then, later that year, she was in a life-altering car accident meanwhile, the killings of unarmed Black people continued. Haynes, who had used her rent and bill money to stage the show, went back to her corporate job, discouraged. They had a chair and sofa as a set, and only fifteen people were in the audience. In March 2017, Haynes, Davidson, and the original cast traveled to Selma to perform the musical. “This musical is a charge to the people for action.” “He was killed by the Ku Klux Klan for saving his family when they bombed his home. Davidson immediately signed on her great grandfather, Vernon Dahmer Sr., was a civil rights activist in Hattiesburg credited with coining the phrase, “If you don’t vote, you don’t count.”ĭavidson saw Selma as a way to honor civil rights activists like her great grandfather, past and present.
To play Connie, Haynes called her friend Melissa Davidson, a nurse, singer, and actress. The two clash while Connie prepares for King, Lewis, Ralph David Abernathy, and Andrew Young to visit their home days before the march. Kang comin’ to town,” while Joe is more aligned with Malcolm X and Black nationalism. They’ve both been watching the civil rights movement unfold, and Connie is excited about “Dr. Selma is the story of siblings Connie and Joe, whose parents died when they were young, leaving them to take care of their younger sisters. When she returned home to Mississippi, Haynes, who is also a poet, started writing her very first musical. “The moment you cross the city limits and see the bridge, there’s a heaviness,” Haynes says. When she arrived, she says the Queen City of the Black Belt spoke to her. She’d visited Selma for the first time in 2016 to perform a piece of spoken-word poetry at the annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee. Haynes had grown up hearing stories about the civil rights movement from her elders. Thousands of people across the country were marching in favor of better protections from race-based violence at the hands of vigilantes and law enforcement.
Haynes, a writer and entrepreneur from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, saw history repeating itself. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
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