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KQED Newsroom Segment: Brian Copeland Reprises "Not a Genuine Black Man", April 25, 2014

1,401 views · Published 28 April 2014 · 6:42 · Indexed 22 September 2026

Channel: KQED News · 2014 · News & Politics

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Comedian and talk show host Brian Copeland knows how it feels to be an outsider. He grew up in San Leandro during the 1970's the only African American student in his high school class of three hundred fifty. As a kid, he weathered physical abuse from his father, discrimination by local police, and efforts by a racist landlord to evict his family from their apartment. He shaped those experiences into a long-running one man show "Not A Genuine Black Man." The tenth anniversary production opens at Berkeley Rep this week and runs through May. Copeland sat down with Scott Shafer to talk about the show, his comedy, and life on the outside looking in.

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