Historians Are Calling Colman Domingo's Upcoming Role a Modern-Day 'Crisis of the Talented Tenth'
As Colman Domingo is set to portray a transformative figure in a new historical drama, scholars are drawing stark parallels to W.E.B. Du Bois’s "Talented Tenth" theory from the 1900s. The buzz on X is comparing his character’s internal conflict to that of Frederick Douglass facing a hostile nation, arguing this is the first time an actor of Domingo’s stature has visually united the intellectual and the vulnerable in a way not seen since Paul Robeson on the silent screen.