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Wendell Pierce is Broadway’s First Black Willy Loman

Actor Wendell Pierce is taking on a timeless American classic, starring as Willy Loman in a Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s "Death of a Salesman," with the first-ever Black Loman family at center stage. Pierce speaks with Walter Isaacson about the play's political implications -- and what it means to him on a personal level.

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