cnd, the message is important and needed telling to every group who came before her. If you remembered it from one concert to another, then her sharing of information is working.

And you are bound to be disappointed if you think the subject should die away. She has won many awards and accolades for the opera Omar

2023 Pulitzer Prize-winner, Omar is an opera with libretto and music by Rhiannon Giddens (in collaboration with Michael Abels), based on the autobiography of an enslaved muslim man, Omar Ibn Said, who lived in Charleston, SC in the 19th century. Commissioned by Spoleto Festival USA, Omar premiered at the 2022 festival and has since made its debut at LA Opera, University of Chapel Hill at North Carolina Southern Futures, and Boston Lyric Opera, and is slated for debut at San Francisco Opera and Lyric of Chicago.

She's doing important work to pull American awareness to the truth of this history of enslaved people in America. The rich and ancient culture that arrived with them, not the BS that politicians are pushing about "they learned useful skills."

All of that said, thanks for the links!