Who Protects Black Actors and Actresses After Diverse Casting Decisions?

Diversity must be more than a surface-level

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The announcement that Francesca Amewudah-Rivers, a Black British actress, would play the leading role in Jamie Lloyd's production of Romeo & Juliet last spring was met with a storm of racist backlash. "I received death threats, hate mail sent to the theatre," and "I didn't feel safe at work," she…