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Playwright Anna Deavere Smith tells her own family story in 'Basil Biggs'

NPR | By Tonya Mosley
Published June 25, 2026 at 11:51 AM EDT

Smith's new show is about her great-great-grandfather, a free Black man who reburied the Union dead at Gettysburg and prepared the ground for Lincoln's most famous speech.

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