PBS News Hour (9/16/2026), "Exhibition explores connection between Black women and the works of Shakespeare": "There's a sort of longstanding myth that Shakespeare's world was not a diverse world ... Black women ... lived and worked in London at the same time that Shakespeare was living and writing there ... Black women, as artists, as creators, as theater professionals themselves have used Shakespeare to tell their own stories." Video on Youtube. An excerpt from the exhibition catalog edited by Patricia Akhimie introduces the entire open access collection of essays, including Shanelle E. Kim's article on Frances DeBerry, the game show contestant mentioned on PBS News Hour. See also Esther Ferington's quiz on Black women and Shakespeare and Patricia Akhimie's previous lecture on "The Goodness of the Night: Editing Othello" (transcript).