Albert Einstein and Marian Anderson: Friendship Across Lines of Race and Faith with Deborah Brevoort, Sheldon Epps and Nadine Epstein

Albert Einstein and Marian Anderson: Friendship Across Lines of Race and Faith with Deborah Brevoort, Sheldon Epps and Nadine Epstein

Tuesday, May 5 at 1pm, ET / 10am, PTIn 1937, Albert Einstein and acclaimed contralto Marian Anderson became lifelong friends after Einstein invited Anderson to stay at his home when she was denied a hotel room in Princeton, New Jersey because of her race. Two years later, Anderson was barred from singing at Constitution Hall in Washington, DC and instead performed on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Inspired by these true events, playwright De…