A white actress is suing the San Diego Library for racial discrimination after it canceled her one-woman show in which she portrays historic Black civil rights figures, including Harriet Tubman.
County administrators thought some library patrons might find her performance culturally insensitive.
Annette Hubbell, 76, has been presenting her “Woman Warriors” show, paying tribute to the women she most admires, for five years at venues across the country. In it, she brings to life a roster of extraordinary female characters, Black and white, which her lawsuit describes as “ordinary women who transformed themselves and left the world a better place.”
They include poet Anne Bradstreet, abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe, Jewish resistance leader Corrie Ten Boom, civil rights leaders Mary McLeod Bethune and Sojourner Truth, and Tubman, the iconic escaped enslaved woman turned abolitionist and suffragette…