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This month in America, my community, my beautiful Black community, evoked the spirit of our ancestors in what is becoming one of the largest protests in history. We will not stop until we see justice. We will not stop until we are granted the freedom that was stolen from us 401 years ago. We will no longer exist content with a world that asks us to justify our existence." |
"But, just like everything else in the world even a pandemic is not exempt from injustice. On May 25, 2020 George Floyd was brutally murdered by police officer Derek Chauvin on the streets of Minneapolis. His death woke the world up to the fact that even in a worldwide pandemic the Black community is still not absolved from police brutality" |
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Click above to read the full article!
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It was the idea that a young woman could lose her life in the midst of doing such important work. The idea that the same community she fought for could so easily miss the danger she was fighting. Her story followed me into my dreams, her memory marched beside me in the streets and her fight trailed behind me, craving change." |
THE SOSU SERIES
“It’s time to speak out about injustice. It’s time to speak up in solidarity”
The SoSu Series creates a space to highlight the work of Black, Indigenous Women (cis and trans) and Non-Binary People of Color working in the DC Theater scene through a sequence of video interviews. The artists interviewed will talk about their personal artistic ventures while also engaging in conversations around the untold struggles of being a Woman or Non-Binary in an industry that often directly neglects, mishandles and silences them.
Catch episodes every Wednesday at 7pm on YouTube.
Catch episodes every Wednesday at 7pm on YouTube.
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Trailer edited by Tiffany Byrd Harrison (click for her website!)
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Logo by Jeremy Keith Hunter (click here for his website!)
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ACTIVISM COVERAGE
" Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble."
-John Lewis
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As the protests have grown and shifted, she has expanded her work from street journalism to handing out help to the protestors and the homeless she meets along the way." -Lorraine Treanor |
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Click above to watch the entire roundtable!
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They identified and unpacked so much of the hurt and pain that our gender diverse black colleagues face in the arts, and did so with a care and thoughtfulness that is often overlooked" -Jon Jon Johnson |