The First World Theatre Ensemble will stage a performance of “Sojourner” on Saturday at The Rotunda (4014 Walnut St.) to help raise money for the Community Education Center (3500 Lancaster Ave.) and the The Paul Robeson House (4951 Walnut St.), two important West Philly-based cultural institutions.

The play features Zuhairah McGill as the abolitionist and women’s rights activist Sojourner Truth. Born into slavery in Swartekill, New York as Isabella Baumfree, Truth escaped with an infant daughter in 1826 and became one of the first African American women to win a court case against a white man when she sued to have her son returned from a slaveowner in Alabama.

The performance begins at 7 p.m. General admission tickets are $25. Tickets for students and seniors are $15. Tickets can be purchased online at: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/168495 or at the door one hour before the perfomance.