Plays In Black

About the Book

High Schoolers, making those comments about a play?? Unbelievable, but true. Inside these plays,  you’ll find high schoolers, rappin’ their way to college, high school betrayal among friends, trips back into  ancient Africa – from Queen Hatshepsut to King Tut to Queen Nzinga – into an alternate universe in the   United States – where historically great Blacks are the ruling class – into the streets of the inner-city– with  gangs and police brutality – and into the corruption of Hurricane Katrina! 

Dr. Candell has taken our youth from an historical perspective, into the streets, into a time machine,  into A Brighter Day.  

About the Author

He has taught youth since 1978. In fact, prior to 1978, his fourth grade teacher in 1972, Mrs. Wyndham, gave him a group of students to teach reading. He worked his way through college, working fulltime and proofreading peer papers. Dr. Candell was born and raised in Oakland. In 2002, he received the Educator of the Year Award for the 5th time in his career. Ten months ago, his school was featured in the Oakland Tribune, due to the quality of work his students produce. Newspaper and Television throughout the world acknowledged his school for sending the first-ever 10-year old to school fulltime at Cal State University East Bay. In 2006, he was awarded the PHAT Friends Award by the All-Stars Network for his work with Inner-city youth. On November 5th, 2007, Dr. Candell was recognized by Bank of America and awarded the Neighborhood Excellence Hero Award. Prior to that, he was the Senior Admissions Advisor at Heald College. Immediately before Heald, he was a Director at Menlo College