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