Fires in the Mirror

Characters

  • Ntozake Shange: 42- to 45-year-old African-American playwright, poet, novelist.
  • Anonymous Lubavitcher Woman: Jewish mid-thirties preschool teacher.
  • George C. Wolfe: African-American playwright who was also director/producer of the New York Shakespeare Festival. (served 1993–2004)
  • Aaron M. Bernstein: Jewish man in his fifties. Physicist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  • Anonymous Girl: A junior high, teen-age black girl of Haitian descent. Lives in Brooklyn. (near Crown Heights)
  • The Reverend Al Sharpton: Well-known African-American New York activist and minister.
  • Rivkah Siegal: Lubavitcher woman. Graphic designer. Age unspecified.
  • Angela Davis: Prominent African-American activist in her late 40s. Author, orator, and scholar. Then a Professor in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
  • Monique 'Big Mo' Matthews: African-American rapper in Los Angeles.
  • Leonard Jeffries: African-American Professor of African American Studies at City University of New York, where he was former chair of the department.
  • Letty Cottin Pogrebin: Author and founding editor of Ms. Magazine. Of Jewish descent and in her fifties.
  • Minister Conrad Mohammed: African-American minister of New York associated with the Nation of Islam; he later became a Baptist. He served as minister for Louis Farrakhan.
  • Robert F. Sherman: Executive Director of the City of New York's Increase the Peace Corps (part of the Mayor's Office).[3]
  • Rabbi Joseph Spielman: Spokesperson in the Luabvitch community.
  • Reverend Canon Doctor Heron Sam: African-American pastor at St. Mark's Crown Heights Church.
  • Anonymous Young Man #1: resident of Crown Heights, Caribbean-American man in his late teens or early twenties.
  • Michael S. Miller: Executive Director of the Jewish Community Relations Council.
  • Henry Rice: Crown Heights resident.
  • Norman Rosenbaum: Brother of Yankel Rosenbaum, an Australian.
  • Anonymous Young Man #2: Crown Heights resident, an African-American young man in his late teens or early twenties.
  • Sonny Carson: African-American activist.
  • Rabbi Shea Hecht: middle-aged Lubavitcher rabbi, spokesperson.
  • Richard Green: Director of the Crown Heights Youth Collective and Co-director of Project CURE (a black-Hasidic basketball team that was developed after the riots)
  • Rosalynn Malamud: Lubavitcher resident of Crown Heights.
  • Reuven Ostrov: Lubavitcher youth and member of project CURE, 17 years old at the time of the riot. He worked as an assistant chaplain at Kings County Hospital.
  • Carmel Cato: Father of Gavin Cato, immigrant from Guyana and resident of Crown Heights.

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