The N Lackawanna Blues deals with chapter 12, The centerpiece of Lackawanna Blues is the character Rachel "Nanny" Crosby, who runs a boardinghouse and provides unflagging support to a young boy, Ruben, who is the narrator of the movie that is based upon the experiences of actor Ruben Santiago-Hudson. Ruben was born in 1956 to his Puerto Rican father Ruben Santiago and his African-American mother Alena Hudson. This movie is an American play written by Ruben Santiago-Hudson that premiered in 2001 and was later adapted as a television movie that aired in 2005. The movie dramatizes the character of the author's primary caregiver when he was growing up in Lackawanna, New York, during the 1950s and 1960s. Lackawanna Blues movie recreates the upstate New York boardinghouse and evokes the cultural climate of a world in transition in the 1960s. This means that within the segregation-era Lackawanna, NY, Rachel "Nanny" Crosby is being an incredible woman whose …show more content…
Ruben Junior (Marcus Carl Franklin) is a young boy who was born in the late '40s into a family that started crumbling not long after he was born. Ruben Junior's parents were from Lackawanna, a city in Upstate New York, and were living in a rooming house run by Nanny Crosby (S. Epatha Merceron), her place was a hub for the local African-American community. When Ruben Junior's parents split up, he and his mother return to Lackawanna and Nanny's rooming telling of his youth. When the ’60s sets in, “Lackawanna” blocks the intrusion of social change, maintaining a fairy tale ambience for Ruben Jr. to grow up in, Nanny’s rooming house is a haven for people in need of a second chance such as ex-cons, drug addicts, pimps, gamblers and what used to be called wayward women. Her life is about taking of people and making them whole and Nanny did just