 It's Notes from America. I'm Kai Wright, and I am talking this week with playwright Brandon Jacobs Jenkins. He's a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, a MacArthur Genius grantee, and his play, Appropriate, is up for eight Tony Awards later this month. He wrote the show more than a decade ago as part of a suite of work in which he was, as he puts it, trying to make sense out of the nonsense of race.