Corey Hawkins as Benny, Gregory Diaz IV as Sonny and Anthony Ramos as Usnavi in "In The Heights."
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'In the Heights' reignites long-standing conversations about colorism in the Latinx community
Franceli Chapman knows what Washington Heights looks like. The uptown Manhattan neighborhood where Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical "In the Heights" takes place is where Chapman, an Afro-Latina actress with roots in the Dominican Republic, played on street corners as a child and where she hung out on rooftops as a teenager.
