[citation needed] All four siblings attended and graduated from Ivy League schools (Barnard, Harvard and Yale), and earned advanced degrees focusing respectively on foreign diplomacy, playwriting, poetry and law.
[citation needed] Bayeza and Shange co-wrote Some Sing, Some Cry, a 600-page novel about seven generations of black women and their personal identities.
[6] Her works for the stage include Amistad Voices, Club Harlem, Kid Zero, Homer G & the Rhapsodies, and The Ballad of Emmett Till.
Amistad Voices is set in 1839, and is about 53 Africans who revolted on a Spanish slave ship, battling over the legality of slavery.
Bayeza went to Ethiopia to work on a personal project, creating images of ancient religious sites along the Nile.
The original director, Ben Bradley, was suddenly murdered, and the production was picked up by Shirley Jo Finney.
In Kathleen Foley's review of the play, along with praising Finney's direction, she opined that Bayeza's account made Till's fate even more harrowing, stating that, "In that she succeeds, brilliantly.