The play by August Wilson is about black America recalling their migration from the sharecropping farms of the South to the industrialized North in the early 1900s.

这部奥古斯特·威尔森的剧作描写1900年代初期美国黑人回忆从南方佃农迁徙到工业化的北方的历史。

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It started last August, when a white police officer named Darren Wilson shot and killed an unarmed 18-year-old named Michael Brown.

事件发生在八月份，当时一名叫做威尔逊的警员枪杀了一名无辜的18岁黑人布朗。

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She's now preparing to return to Broadway this fall in the August Wilson drama, Gem of the Ocean.

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She's had some wonderful roles in August Wilson's plays, but I don't know that people really know her outside of the New York theater world.

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The 1987 production of "Fences, " the only August Wilson box-office hit, struggled to bring in African-American audiences, as did Russell Simmons's "Def Poetry Jam" in 2002.

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