Shirley Jo Finney, 74, Dies; Addressed the Black Experience Onstage

After an acting career that included playing the Olympic sprinter Wilma Rudolph in a TV movie, she became known as a director for her work at regional theaters. Shirley Jo Finney, an actor who became a prolific and award-winning director of plays that dug deeply into the Black experience, died on…

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