Radical Hearsay May 15, 2009

'Radical Hearsay' is elemental storytelling -- the merging of word and breath through the unique voice of Shirley Carney. Her stories reflect the subtle complexities and contradictions of American life as seen through the eyes of a black woman negotiating through our world for the past six decades. Born in rural Mississippi during the rise of the civil rights era, transplanted to Chicago during the civil unrest of the mid sixties, raising her family during the "affirmative action" seventies and the "me generation" eighties, Ms. Carney has witnessed the close of one century and the starting of another. She brings maturity and insight "to the business of living" rarely seen on the American stage.