JUNETEENTH Virtual Tour 2020
FREEDOM UNDER THREAT
Have Black Lives Been at Risk Since Freedom was Proclaimed?
Presented by Iron Age Theatre and Theatre in the X
DAy 1: June 18, 2020
TULSA and Self Determination
Video 1: A Narrative Account of the Tulsa Massacre - May 31, 1921
presented by Walter DeShields
Video 2: Riot!-A Negro Resident’s Story” by Sandra A Wes - Chicago Riots 1967
presented by Niya Colbert
Video 3: Fanny Lou Hamer's Testimony at the Democratic National Convention 1968
presented by LaNeshe Miller-White
Day 2: June 19, 2020
Protest and Power
Video 1: Red-Handed Murder: Negroes Wantonly Killed at Thibodaux, La. 1887
presented by Maurice Tucker
Video 2: People Can Cry Much Easier Than They Can Change by James Baldwin 1977
Does emotional intensity equal capacity for real change?
presented by Walter DeShields
Video 3: Ameri-corona by Moyo Wills 2020
What is the word on the street in protest?
presented by Moyo Wills
Day 3: Ownership, Wealth and Violence
Video 1: On the Violence of Property by the ACME COLLECTIVE 1999
Presented by Eric Carter
Video 2: Defense of Self Defense by Huey P. Newton 1967
presented by Carlo Campbell
Video 3: Love is Contraband in Hell by Assata Shakur 2001
Presented by Niya Colbert
Day 4: Lynching and Institutional Murder
Video 1: The Lynching: a narrative of the Lynching of Robin White
performed by Robert Weick
Video 2: Introduction from Police Brutality: An Anthology. by Jill Nelson
Considering Amadou Diallo, The Kerner Commission report, and the concept of "he must have done something for police to have hurt him”
Presented by Carlo Campbell
Video 3: Mumia, Lynch Law and Imperialism by Amiri Baraka
Baraka speaks to the powers of violence, economics and the perpetuation of lynching through the lens of stop and frisk and the treatment of Amadou Diallo and Mumia Jamal
Presented by Richard Bradford
Video 4: Strange Fruit written by Abel Meeropol 1937
This haunting song about horrible fruit on the lynching tree was originally popularized by Billie Holiday in 1939 and is a horrible reminder of the cruelty and thread black Americans live with even when free.
Performed by Najwa Parkins
Video Shot by Josiah Blizzard and the Cast of Juneteenth2020 Video Editing Iron Age Theatre
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Designed by John Doyle and Richard Bradford and Bob Weick