{"id":142,"date":"2023-12-05T04:30:29","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T04:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/yamirchapman\/?p=142"},"modified":"2023-12-05T04:33:07","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T04:33:07","slug":"142","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/yamirchapman\/2023\/12\/05\/142\/","title":{"rendered":"S. Pearl Sharp talks about her sister"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Playwright, film actress, stage actress, and poet S. Pearl Sharp (1942 – ) was among the cast of Gordon Parks\u2019 The Learning Tree, and Minstrel Man. Sharp has also published six books and produced and directed eight films and stage plays.<\/p>\n

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Sharp speaks about her younger sibling and the challenges faced by their parent’s divorce. Sharp speaks about her impacting her younger sibling by stepping into the mother role occasionally as their parents focused on their divorce. As Sharp shared her sister’s accomplishments she smiled and displayed a sense of accomplishment. Additionally she seems very proud of her sister and, as she comments, is very well pleased that her sister is a mother who has Black sons who have never done drugs or been to jail. While Sharp shares that she decided to not have children, she became a teacher and chose not to do a single adoption, which she comments is slightly connected to her mother being a single mother.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Playwright, film actress, stage actress, and poet S. Pearl Sharp (1942 – ) was among the cast of Gordon Parks\u2019 The Learning Tree, and Minstrel Man. Sharp has also published six books and produced and directed eight films and stage plays. For a full biography click Sharp speaks about her younger sibling and the challenges […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[23,18,22],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library","tag-divorce","tag-sibling-parent","tag-sister"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/yamirchapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/yamirchapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/yamirchapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/yamirchapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/yamirchapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/yamirchapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/yamirchapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/yamirchapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/yamirchapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/yamirchapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}