Honoring Black History Month: Education called key to achievement
When actor Phil Darius Wallace steps on stage as Frederick Douglass, he feels the struggles and successes the abolitionist movement leader encountered.
Wallace performed his one-man show "Self-Made Man: The Bondage and Freedom of Frederick Douglass," which he also wrote and produced, Saturday night at the El Paso Community College's Transmountain Campus Forum Theatre.
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In the show, which he has performed for the past 10 years, Wallace portrays Douglass during his early life as a slave on plantations in Maryland until when he ran away in 1838.
The performance focuses on Douglass' exorcism of his past demons as a slave and his finding a way to release his past by forgiving his former master and reconfirming for himself that freedom foremost is a state of mind, Wallace said.
http://www.elpasotimes.com/news/ci_19947347
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You made me curious to know more about Phil Darius Wallace. I didn't see a clip of this show on his site, but he has others on his site. He has one on Frederick Douglass called "Fourth of July". It's a wonderful delivery.
phildariuswallace.com/onemanshows.htm
I would like to see it someday. I wish more people would see it too.
I saw the headline and realized that this was a cultural event worth noting. Portrayals in single actor format are extremely difficult, but Wallace is very convincing as Douglass in the video clip.
There are so many lessons to be learned from history and from each other. I'm glad to share the story with DU. 
