He was a hit with both white and black audiences, particularly in the South.

So what about the black audiences who, in the end, would have made the difference?

"The only place I recently had a big black audience was at a prison."

And in my mind it became quite clear that I wouldn't be writing down to a black audience.

But even making sites that will appeal to a black audience can only go so far.

And we didn't get the support through black audiences that I'd hoped for.

"We are providing something to black audiences they haven't seen before."

"You don't survive on public television with just a black audience," he said.

Among other things, it brought the play its first largely black audience.

How to reach black audiences continues to be an issue.