Originally set to be produced onstage in March, 2020, the world premiere of playwright, producer and educator Cynthia Grace Robinsonâs âFreedom Summerâ will instead become a streamed film version from Feb. 12 to 28. N.C. Black Repertory Company worked with Appalachian State University to make the new play a reality.
Robinsonâs story of two sisters takes place on one day: Aug. 4, 1964.
Nora Heeley (played by Mariah Guillmette) is starting a new life âpassingâ as a white woman. Her sister, Carrie Carrington (Niklya Boxley) travels to the Deep South to register Black people to vote. The bodies of three civil rights workers have just been found in Mississippi.
Emotional Emancipation Circle Brings Support, Connection, And Learning To East Winston by David Ford
6:13pm Feb 04, 2021 Lakesha Jones (left) and Velma Terry participated in the Emotional Emancipation Circle in East Winston over a period of 8 weeks. DAVID FORD/WFDD
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In 2018, eleven Black women volunteered to come together over eight weeks to share, learn, support one another, and to find out more about how systemic poverty has impacted their lives. Their time together is carefully chronicled in a recent book by Winston-Salem State University professor Michele Lewis. The group became a source of connection and learning for the women involved and the author herself.
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The money, given by the company that makes and sells brands such as Guinness beer, Johnnie Walker whiskies and Smirnoff vodka, will create endowments to help colleges financially assist students.