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Newsweek
March 30, 2018
In 2000, Osha Gray Davidson, a journalist and the author of Under Fire: The NRA and the Battle for Gun Control, detailed a conversation he had with former NRA board member David Gross. "Two years ago, David Gross, then an NRA board member, confided to me that a substantial number of the group's 1 ...
Rockford Register Star
March 11, 2018
Information: Artists' Ensemble's production of"Best of Enemies" is based on the bestselling book by Osha Gray Davidson. Starring Jeff Christian and Sara Williams, the play is a true story that follows Ann, an African-American civil rights activist, and C.P., the Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan. The two are ...
Broadway World
March 8, 2018
THE BEST OF ENEMIES, by Mark St. Germain (April 6-8) is based on the true story told in the book by Osha Gray Davidson: an ambitious community activist brings a Ku Klux Klan leader and an African-American civil rights activist together on a committee to study school desegregation in North Carolina, ...
Rockford Register Star
March 3, 2018
The play is based on the true story told in the book, The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South, by Osha Gray Davidson, and I would encourage book clubs to read and discuss it! We had a good discussion of it at Rockford Public Library on Feb. 27, and I'd be glad to share our discussion ...
Money Magazine
February 28, 2018
“He represents a real departure for the NRA,” Osha Gray Davidson, the author of the 1993 book Under Fire: The, the NRA and the Battle for Gun Control, said in 1995, after LaPierre had been in charge of the NRA for a few years. “He's the first leader for the NRA that doesn't come from the shooting-sports ...
Houston Press
January 19, 2018
When in doubt listen to The Godfather's Michael Corleone, “Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.” Both protagonists in Mark St. Germain's theater adaptation of Osha Gray Davidson's non-fiction Best of Enemies do this with a pungent sniping that's mighty hard to swallow.
Houston Press
December 29, 2017
He was a card-carrying member of the Ku Klux Klan, proud to serve his country and family as Grand Cyclops and absolutely, positively convinced that his path was righteous and true. But when C. P. Ellis was invited to serve on an open forum about school problems in Durham, South Carolina, he realized ...
Mountain Xpress
August 14, 2017
Inspired by Osha Gray Davidson's 1996 nonfiction book that chronicles the unlikely friendship between black activist Ann Atwater and C.P Ellis, grand cyclops of the Durham chapter of the Ku Klux Klan, Mark St. Germain's play Best of Enemies is the latest selection by Different Strokes! Performing Arts ...
Variety
May 17, 2017
Bissell, an exec producer on “The Hunger Games” and “Seabiscuit,” will make his directorial debut from his own script, based on Osha Gray Davidson's book “The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South.” “Empire” star Henson will portray Ann Atwater, a civil rights activist in Durham, N.C., ...
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