Development Background for Intelligence
Intelligence is an intentional word-play response to the call for Black women genius monologues. The story of Doris “Lucki” Allen has captured my imagination since I first encountered primary material about her in the archives of the Women in Military Service of America Foundation. Lucki is best known in military history for predicting several events, including the Tet Offensive in Vietnam. The monologue is an imagined appearance at a twenty-first century campus event where she tells the audience about an encounter with a person in the greenroom, a thinly veiled reference to the views of social media “influencer” Candace Owens. The story is intended to highlight history, its circularity, and Lucki’s Black woman genius.
