Finney spent decades directing drama plays, including Ifa Bayeza’s “The Ballad of Emmett Till,” about the 14-year-old boy kidnapped, tortured and murdered by two white men in 1955.
Shirley Jo Finney, whose career saw her go from an actor to an award-winning director who spent nearly 40 years delving into the Black experience onstage, has died of .
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