1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:31,431 --> 00:00:32,899 - Many people are gonna think 4 00:00:32,999 --> 00:00:35,368 they know what this story is about. 5 00:00:36,269 --> 00:00:38,905 But they do not. 6 00:00:44,677 --> 00:00:46,379 - This morning, we look to America's 7 00:00:46,446 --> 00:00:48,782 civil rights struggle of the '60s and late '50s. 8 00:00:48,882 --> 00:00:50,450 Sadly, it's now estimated that one 9 00:00:50,550 --> 00:00:52,118 if not two generations of Americans 10 00:00:52,218 --> 00:00:53,686 are too young to have direct recollection 11 00:00:53,753 --> 00:00:55,288 of those years. 12 00:00:55,388 --> 00:00:57,524 Now, thankfully, the years are dramatically reconstructed 13 00:00:57,590 --> 00:00:59,526 in a six-part documentary series 14 00:00:59,592 --> 00:01:01,127 which begins on PBS next week. 15 00:01:01,227 --> 00:01:02,729 It's called "Eyes on the Prize." 16 00:01:02,796 --> 00:01:04,264 Henry Hampton is executive producer 17 00:01:04,364 --> 00:01:05,532 of the series, and he joins us now 18 00:01:05,598 --> 00:01:06,966 from our newsroom in Burbank. 19 00:01:07,067 --> 00:01:08,601 Good morning. - Good morning, Bryant. 20 00:01:08,701 --> 00:01:11,037 - What is it you wanted to achieve with it? 21 00:01:11,104 --> 00:01:13,106 - Well, I wanted to capture the miracle. 22 00:01:13,206 --> 00:01:15,108 You had an extraordinary group of leaders 23 00:01:15,208 --> 00:01:16,743 who emerged who literally 24 00:01:16,810 --> 00:01:18,545 changed the course of the country's history. 25 00:01:18,611 --> 00:01:21,147 - Camera roll 1032, sound roll 114. 26 00:01:21,247 --> 00:01:22,449 - Mark it. 27 00:01:24,317 --> 00:01:26,052 - Copy that. - Team K. 28 00:01:27,087 --> 00:01:30,156 - The purpose of this series is really to put the cameras 29 00:01:30,256 --> 00:01:32,992 on those unknown individuals, those little-known people 30 00:01:33,093 --> 00:01:34,627 from the backwater counties 31 00:01:34,727 --> 00:01:36,663 of Georgia and Alabama and Mississippi 32 00:01:36,763 --> 00:01:38,431 who really made this movement. 33 00:02:41,995 --> 00:02:44,197 - Have you seen the original "Eyes on Prize," Prentis? 34 00:02:44,297 --> 00:02:45,532 - Yeah, of course. - Okay. 35 00:02:45,632 --> 00:02:47,901 - I mean, not in a long time, but yes. 36 00:02:50,970 --> 00:02:53,173 - The first time I saw "Eyes" 37 00:02:53,239 --> 00:02:56,176 I must've been a teenager. 38 00:02:56,242 --> 00:02:58,845 My former high school teachers 39 00:02:58,912 --> 00:03:01,748 had all these cassette tapes. 40 00:03:01,848 --> 00:03:03,983 It had such an impact on me. 41 00:03:04,050 --> 00:03:07,487 I don't know if I would be doing what I'm doing now 42 00:03:07,554 --> 00:03:09,589 if it weren't for "Eyes on the Prize," 43 00:03:09,689 --> 00:03:13,993 if I didn't have representation, 44 00:03:14,060 --> 00:03:17,030 if I didn't have a place to see, 45 00:03:17,096 --> 00:03:18,932 you know, what was possible. 46 00:03:19,032 --> 00:03:20,867 - I always remember being inspired 47 00:03:20,934 --> 00:03:22,435 but very traumatized. 48 00:03:22,535 --> 00:03:25,572 I was traumatized by looking at the water, the dogs, 49 00:03:25,672 --> 00:03:27,907 these people dressed up in this beautiful style 50 00:03:28,007 --> 00:03:30,577 having coffee poured on them, not moving. 51 00:03:30,677 --> 00:03:34,180 I'm just enamored and terrorized 52 00:03:34,247 --> 00:03:36,583 and inspired at the same time. 53 00:03:36,683 --> 00:03:40,787 So it was like this tender rage and this beauty and terror. 54 00:03:40,887 --> 00:03:43,122 - I watched "Eyes on the Prize" 55 00:03:43,223 --> 00:03:47,260 on the south side of Chicago in my community center. 56 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:49,729 I was like 14, 15. 57 00:03:49,796 --> 00:03:53,466 A bunch of Howard College kids came to talk to us 58 00:03:53,566 --> 00:03:56,469 about their organizing campaigns on campus. 59 00:03:56,569 --> 00:03:58,605 And then we watched "Eyes on the Prize" 60 00:03:58,705 --> 00:03:59,739 for, like, three days. 61 00:04:03,243 --> 00:04:06,479 - "Eyes on the Prize" kept us-- it was like a bridge 62 00:04:06,579 --> 00:04:10,650 that kept us connected to this history long enough 63 00:04:10,750 --> 00:04:13,486 for us to understand how important it was. 64 00:04:13,586 --> 00:04:15,488 - When you really watch it and look closely, 65 00:04:15,588 --> 00:04:17,290 it's like a record of... 66 00:04:19,492 --> 00:04:22,262 - Of just Black brilliance. 67 00:04:22,328 --> 00:04:25,798 Absolute Black brilliance, 68 00:04:25,898 --> 00:04:29,302 and all that 69 00:04:29,402 --> 00:04:31,337 we brought to movement-- 70 00:04:31,437 --> 00:04:34,173 our spirit, our love, our strategy, 71 00:04:34,274 --> 00:04:37,110 all of it in there for the record. 72 00:04:39,078 --> 00:04:41,814 - We have gone in our own past... 73 00:04:43,249 --> 00:04:45,485 And in the past of others 74 00:04:45,585 --> 00:04:48,321 to look for alternative visions. 75 00:04:49,822 --> 00:04:52,792 - The archive ain't there to be enclosed in amber. 76 00:04:52,859 --> 00:04:54,160 It ain't there to be 77 00:04:54,260 --> 00:04:56,162 just dusted off every now and again. 78 00:04:56,262 --> 00:04:57,764 It's a tangible, living thing. 79 00:04:57,830 --> 00:05:00,366 And now it's like technology'll put things 80 00:05:00,466 --> 00:05:01,701 in the hands of people that you-- 81 00:05:01,801 --> 00:05:03,369 that wasn't supposed to have it, 82 00:05:03,469 --> 00:05:05,138 and now they get to tell the story, 83 00:05:05,204 --> 00:05:06,773 and they get to shift the narrative. 84 00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:08,675 Like, never before could you see 85 00:05:08,775 --> 00:05:11,311 these things happen in real time. 86 00:05:11,377 --> 00:05:13,479 - This country teaches you to forget. 87 00:05:13,546 --> 00:05:16,182 We are supposed to forget. That is America. 88 00:05:16,282 --> 00:05:19,018 If it doesn't run on anything, it runs on forgetting. 89 00:05:19,118 --> 00:05:21,454 You forget what happened to you. 90 00:05:21,521 --> 00:05:25,124 Move on. That is the past, right? 91 00:05:25,191 --> 00:05:29,796 You walk it off, but we must remember. 92 00:05:29,862 --> 00:05:32,632 Remember... 93 00:05:39,372 --> 00:05:42,208 - My first memory of civil rights really revolves 94 00:05:42,308 --> 00:05:44,911 around the story of a 14-year-old boy. 95 00:05:46,179 --> 00:05:48,715 It became-- for many of us, 96 00:05:48,815 --> 00:05:51,517 it was a time that we understood 97 00:05:51,584 --> 00:05:54,854 our vulnerability in this society. 98 00:05:56,989 --> 00:06:01,194 - In the summer of 1955, Emmett Louis Till, 99 00:06:01,260 --> 00:06:03,596 a junior high school student from Chicago, 100 00:06:03,696 --> 00:06:06,566 came down to the Delta to visit his mother's uncle, 101 00:06:06,666 --> 00:06:08,167 Moses Wright. 102 00:06:08,234 --> 00:06:11,404 - When I opened the door, there was a man standing 103 00:06:11,504 --> 00:06:15,007 with a pistol in one hand and flashlight in the other 104 00:06:15,074 --> 00:06:16,409 and wanted to know, 105 00:06:16,509 --> 00:06:18,878 did I have two boys from Chicago. 106 00:06:18,945 --> 00:06:20,513 I told him I did, 107 00:06:20,580 --> 00:06:23,082 and said they wanted the boy that didn't talk. 108 00:06:32,625 --> 00:06:34,127 - It's all yours, Kelly. - Okay. 109 00:06:34,227 --> 00:06:35,428 How did you hear about 110 00:06:35,528 --> 00:06:38,197 the Emmett Till case, Ms. Parks? 111 00:06:41,367 --> 00:06:43,569 - Well, it was on the news. 112 00:06:43,636 --> 00:06:45,638 - Would you start that again? Tell me what was on the news. 113 00:06:45,738 --> 00:06:47,206 Remember, people won't hear my voice. 114 00:06:47,273 --> 00:06:48,641 - Oh, I'm sorry. 115 00:06:48,741 --> 00:06:51,944 The murder of Emmett Till-- 116 00:06:52,044 --> 00:06:54,046 I believe he was about 14 years old 117 00:06:54,113 --> 00:06:57,049 who was visiting his relatives. 118 00:06:58,885 --> 00:07:01,220 His home was in Chicago, 119 00:07:01,287 --> 00:07:04,791 and the... 120 00:07:04,891 --> 00:07:09,495 news came that he had been brutally murdered 121 00:07:09,595 --> 00:07:12,398 and put into the river. 122 00:07:12,465 --> 00:07:15,301 His body was removed from the river 123 00:07:15,401 --> 00:07:16,936 after it had been weighted down 124 00:07:17,003 --> 00:07:20,473 and he was so badly mutilated 125 00:07:20,573 --> 00:07:23,242 he was unrecognizable. 126 00:07:24,410 --> 00:07:26,512 - I believe that the whole United States 127 00:07:26,612 --> 00:07:28,347 is mourning with me. 128 00:07:28,448 --> 00:07:30,616 For him to have died a hero 129 00:07:30,683 --> 00:07:33,519 would mean more to me than for him just to have died, 130 00:07:33,619 --> 00:07:36,589 and I hope that his death will certainly start a movement 131 00:07:36,656 --> 00:07:38,324 in these United States to clean up 132 00:07:38,424 --> 00:07:40,259 our own back alleys. 133 00:07:42,094 --> 00:07:44,197 Emmett was not just mine. 134 00:07:44,297 --> 00:07:46,432 He was a universal child. 135 00:07:55,508 --> 00:07:57,643 - I'm never gonna get my son back. 136 00:07:57,710 --> 00:08:00,012 He's never gonna come back. 137 00:08:00,112 --> 00:08:03,783 So I'm gonna use my time and my energy 138 00:08:03,850 --> 00:08:06,018 to help somebody else's son, 139 00:08:06,118 --> 00:08:10,189 to make a difference in somebody else's life. 140 00:08:10,289 --> 00:08:13,359 - I believed in all of the stories of America. 141 00:08:13,459 --> 00:08:17,463 You know, I thought I could be the exceptional one. 142 00:08:17,530 --> 00:08:20,733 And very quickly over those years, 143 00:08:20,833 --> 00:08:22,368 those Obama years specifically, 144 00:08:22,468 --> 00:08:24,904 I think, for a lot of us, the veneer of what the U.S. 145 00:08:25,004 --> 00:08:28,641 has told us we could be and what we could do snapped. 146 00:08:28,708 --> 00:08:32,311 - When Trayvon happened, it echoed to Emmett Till, 147 00:08:32,378 --> 00:08:35,648 but it also echoed to the people in my own life 148 00:08:35,715 --> 00:08:39,318 whose names we all didn't get to know. 149 00:08:46,359 --> 00:08:47,927 - This exists. 150 00:08:48,027 --> 00:08:50,830 The country, no matter who is the leader of the country, 151 00:08:50,897 --> 00:08:54,066 the steward of the empire, it's gonna remain the same, 152 00:08:54,166 --> 00:08:55,601 gonna be recalcitrant, 153 00:08:55,701 --> 00:08:58,104 gonna be evil, gonna murder. 154 00:08:58,204 --> 00:09:01,073 - For them, I feel committed 155 00:09:01,173 --> 00:09:04,243 to creating new possibilities for us. 156 00:09:04,343 --> 00:09:08,548 That feels like the honoring. That feels like the listening. 157 00:09:08,614 --> 00:09:10,917 Understanding what's created it 158 00:09:11,017 --> 00:09:13,252 and making it less possible each time 159 00:09:13,352 --> 00:09:15,855 for that to happen to any more of us. 160 00:09:15,922 --> 00:09:19,425 That that is how 161 00:09:19,525 --> 00:09:23,696 we create a monument for them. 162 00:09:23,763 --> 00:09:25,364 - What kind of impact 163 00:09:25,431 --> 00:09:28,134 did his death have on you personally? 164 00:09:28,234 --> 00:09:31,604 - Well, just like any person murdered, 165 00:09:31,704 --> 00:09:35,641 I couldn't be any way than... 166 00:09:38,044 --> 00:09:39,579 Very upset, 167 00:09:39,645 --> 00:09:42,915 very...devastated 168 00:09:42,982 --> 00:09:46,319 by the... 169 00:09:46,419 --> 00:09:48,721 fact that in... 170 00:09:50,756 --> 00:09:52,758 The United States of America, 171 00:09:52,825 --> 00:09:55,628 that a child could be 172 00:09:55,728 --> 00:09:57,630 just taken out and killed. 173 00:10:04,937 --> 00:10:06,639 - Listen to me! 174 00:10:08,307 --> 00:10:09,475 They'll pretend 175 00:10:09,575 --> 00:10:10,910 that I'm crazy! 176 00:10:15,448 --> 00:10:17,083 Let me tell you something right here. 177 00:10:18,751 --> 00:10:19,986 Listen to me! 178 00:10:22,455 --> 00:10:24,457 - So you go ahead and vote. So what? 179 00:10:27,460 --> 00:10:29,028 - How you gonna tell me to love 180 00:10:29,128 --> 00:10:32,264 this property that has flaunted me every day? 181 00:10:32,331 --> 00:10:35,668 - Anger inside me night 182 00:10:35,768 --> 00:10:38,371 after night! 183 00:10:38,471 --> 00:10:41,974 - I wanna get your-your-your feelings-feelings 184 00:10:42,041 --> 00:10:44,477 specifically towards white people at that time. 185 00:10:46,445 --> 00:10:48,948 - At the time he was killed? - Mm-hmm. 186 00:10:56,322 --> 00:10:59,525 - When Medgar was felled by that shot, 187 00:10:59,625 --> 00:11:03,696 and I rushed out and saw him lying there, 188 00:11:03,796 --> 00:11:05,631 and people from the neighborhood 189 00:11:05,698 --> 00:11:07,700 began to gather, 190 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:10,670 there were also some whose color 191 00:11:10,736 --> 00:11:13,372 happened to have been white. 192 00:11:13,472 --> 00:11:16,208 I don't think I have ever 193 00:11:16,308 --> 00:11:19,078 hated as much in my life 194 00:11:19,178 --> 00:11:21,047 as I did at that particular moment 195 00:11:21,147 --> 00:11:23,582 with anyone who had white skin. 196 00:11:23,683 --> 00:11:25,184 I screamed at the neighbors, 197 00:11:25,251 --> 00:11:28,020 and when the police finally got there, 198 00:11:28,087 --> 00:11:30,723 I told them that they had killed Medgar, 199 00:11:30,823 --> 00:11:33,726 and I can recall wanting so much to have 200 00:11:33,826 --> 00:11:37,563 a machine gun or something in my hands 201 00:11:37,663 --> 00:11:40,599 and just stand there and mow them all down. 202 00:11:40,700 --> 00:11:42,768 I was just-- 203 00:11:42,868 --> 00:11:46,572 I can't explain the depth 204 00:11:46,672 --> 00:11:49,742 of my hatred at that point. 205 00:12:09,562 --> 00:12:13,365 - On the day that Medgar was--funeral. 206 00:12:13,432 --> 00:12:15,267 I mean, there was violence. 207 00:12:15,367 --> 00:12:18,604 I mean, there was no way to predict it. 208 00:12:18,704 --> 00:12:20,606 There was a different element, the people 209 00:12:20,706 --> 00:12:24,210 who had never participated in the movement before. 210 00:12:35,821 --> 00:12:39,158 The police department and others came there. 211 00:12:39,258 --> 00:12:41,627 They actually antagonized the people. 212 00:12:41,727 --> 00:12:45,131 They were there in full battalion gear 213 00:12:45,231 --> 00:12:47,299 with the riot armor on and guns, 214 00:12:47,399 --> 00:12:48,801 and they were being pretty rough 215 00:12:48,901 --> 00:12:50,669 with the people on the street. 216 00:12:50,770 --> 00:12:53,305 And the people just said, "We're not going to take that. 217 00:12:53,405 --> 00:12:54,974 "This is a funeral of our leader. 218 00:12:55,074 --> 00:12:57,143 "And here they are, you know, harassing us, 219 00:12:57,243 --> 00:12:59,245 and the white folk killed him." 220 00:12:59,311 --> 00:13:00,980 Don't shoot! Hands up! 221 00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:02,748 Don't shoot! 222 00:13:02,815 --> 00:13:04,250 Don't shoot! 223 00:13:04,316 --> 00:13:05,985 Don't shoot! 224 00:13:06,085 --> 00:13:07,453 We're still here! 225 00:13:07,520 --> 00:13:09,855 We're still here! We're still here! 226 00:13:09,955 --> 00:13:12,024 - When I think about... 227 00:13:13,859 --> 00:13:17,596 The times I have felt ancestral rage, 228 00:13:17,663 --> 00:13:22,134 it has been in moments 229 00:13:22,201 --> 00:13:27,006 where Black dignity was stripped away. 230 00:13:33,112 --> 00:13:34,947 I remember everything about August 9th-- 231 00:13:35,014 --> 00:13:38,317 where I was, what I wore. 232 00:13:38,384 --> 00:13:41,520 I understood the interaction. 233 00:13:41,620 --> 00:13:44,957 Police officer stops Black person. 234 00:13:45,024 --> 00:13:47,326 Harasses them. I understood that. 235 00:13:47,393 --> 00:13:49,995 Every Black person in St. Louis understood that. 236 00:13:50,062 --> 00:13:52,298 What I didn't understand 237 00:13:52,364 --> 00:13:55,301 was how that stop 238 00:13:55,367 --> 00:13:58,971 turned into Mike Brown being killed. 239 00:14:08,147 --> 00:14:10,382 - Your child's in my heart. - Thank you. 240 00:14:10,482 --> 00:14:13,719 - And when I went, and I saw... 241 00:14:16,322 --> 00:14:18,190 I saw all these Black people holding space. 242 00:14:18,257 --> 00:14:19,892 I knew what that was, right? 243 00:14:19,992 --> 00:14:23,662 This, like--this mourning, this public funeral, 244 00:14:23,729 --> 00:14:25,831 this grieving out loud. 245 00:14:26,866 --> 00:14:31,737 And then I saw police come in to attack that. 246 00:14:31,837 --> 00:14:35,574 Black mourning out loud was a threat, 247 00:14:35,674 --> 00:14:39,612 and they reacted as if though it was a threat. 248 00:14:39,712 --> 00:14:44,250 Black people being together in public was a threat. 249 00:14:47,052 --> 00:14:49,521 To try to suppress our mourning, 250 00:14:49,588 --> 00:14:51,790 I had a visceral response to that, 251 00:14:51,891 --> 00:14:54,093 that there are mothers who were crying, 252 00:14:54,193 --> 00:14:57,396 that there were people's children out there, 253 00:14:57,463 --> 00:14:59,298 and they drove down that street, 254 00:14:59,398 --> 00:15:00,699 and they got out those cars, 255 00:15:00,766 --> 00:15:02,234 and they had these dogs, 256 00:15:02,301 --> 00:15:05,771 and they had these aerosol cans of mace. 257 00:15:05,871 --> 00:15:10,910 And I just remember thinking, "This is violence. 258 00:15:10,976 --> 00:15:12,978 "You killed somebody. 259 00:15:13,078 --> 00:15:15,114 "And then you get to come in and tell us 260 00:15:15,214 --> 00:15:17,216 how to mourn what you did?" 261 00:15:17,283 --> 00:15:20,052 - You are in the streets blocking the roadway. 262 00:15:20,119 --> 00:15:22,054 You are unlawfully assembled. 263 00:15:22,121 --> 00:15:24,456 You need to disperse immediately, 264 00:15:24,556 --> 00:15:26,058 or you will be subject to arrest. 265 00:15:26,125 --> 00:15:27,459 Do it now. 266 00:15:27,559 --> 00:15:29,762 - I was mad because Black people couldn't be. 267 00:15:29,828 --> 00:15:31,463 Mike Brown couldn't be, 268 00:15:31,563 --> 00:15:32,798 and then the people who came 269 00:15:32,898 --> 00:15:34,900 to mourn Mike Brown couldn't be. 270 00:15:36,468 --> 00:15:40,973 And that felt deep in my body like something 271 00:15:41,073 --> 00:15:44,109 I had never felt before, that level of anger. 272 00:15:48,847 --> 00:15:50,482 - I think that was the most fearless 273 00:15:50,582 --> 00:15:52,952 I've ever been in my life. 274 00:15:57,189 --> 00:15:58,824 I was so out of body. 275 00:15:58,924 --> 00:16:03,662 It felt like all spirit, all heart. 276 00:16:09,101 --> 00:16:12,871 Those long nights in Ferguson. 277 00:16:15,975 --> 00:16:19,778 The boots, the cop boots, 278 00:16:19,845 --> 00:16:23,949 the baton sticks that they use, 279 00:16:24,016 --> 00:16:29,021 the shields, the weapons. 280 00:16:31,223 --> 00:16:35,060 It's like I have never heard coldness, right? 281 00:16:35,160 --> 00:16:36,628 But... 282 00:16:39,164 --> 00:16:41,867 In that moment, at that time, I did. 283 00:16:41,967 --> 00:16:45,204 It felt and it sounded 284 00:16:45,304 --> 00:16:47,740 just cold. 285 00:16:50,009 --> 00:16:51,744 It just felt dangerous, 286 00:16:51,844 --> 00:16:54,246 and it felt like a loveless place, 287 00:16:54,346 --> 00:16:56,148 and time felt still. 288 00:16:58,217 --> 00:17:00,919 I would be out in Ferguson 289 00:17:01,020 --> 00:17:03,655 from as early as 6:00 p.m. 290 00:17:03,722 --> 00:17:06,525 until about 4:00 in the morning. 291 00:17:06,592 --> 00:17:10,863 No concept of time. I wasn't even on my own time. 292 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:18,037 It wasn't until one day-- 293 00:17:18,103 --> 00:17:21,540 I was doing my rotation at a children's hospital, 294 00:17:21,607 --> 00:17:23,942 and I had to draw up some medication. 295 00:17:24,042 --> 00:17:25,911 And my hands were shaking. 296 00:17:26,011 --> 00:17:30,716 That was the day I went home from clinical... 297 00:17:33,118 --> 00:17:35,354 I made a phone call, 298 00:17:35,421 --> 00:17:38,590 and I said, "I'm dropping out." 299 00:17:40,559 --> 00:17:43,862 If I have to choose, 300 00:17:43,929 --> 00:17:47,199 I have to choose the community. 301 00:17:47,266 --> 00:17:48,867 That's where my heart is at... 302 00:17:52,604 --> 00:17:55,040 And I'm glad I did 303 00:17:55,107 --> 00:17:58,544 because Michael Brown 304 00:17:58,610 --> 00:18:00,813 changed this world... 305 00:18:02,915 --> 00:18:06,585 And the people who fought for him 306 00:18:06,652 --> 00:18:09,088 changed this entire world. 307 00:18:22,968 --> 00:18:26,171 - I believed in all of the stories of America. 308 00:18:26,271 --> 00:18:28,640 It's gonna be recalcitrant, gonna be evil, 309 00:18:28,740 --> 00:18:30,409 gonna murder. 310 00:18:30,476 --> 00:18:33,946 - Makani Themba caused 2020 a rupture. 311 00:18:34,012 --> 00:18:36,515 - Taylor, a 26-year-old former EMT 312 00:18:36,615 --> 00:18:39,251 was shot and killed by police in March. 313 00:18:39,318 --> 00:18:40,986 - Justified in their use of force. 314 00:18:41,086 --> 00:18:42,521 - Have not been fired. 315 00:18:42,621 --> 00:18:44,423 - Protesters demanding swift justice. 316 00:18:44,490 --> 00:18:45,991 - The death of George Floyd. 317 00:18:46,091 --> 00:18:47,860 - And the police officer has not been charged. 318 00:18:47,960 --> 00:18:49,161 - Violence and protests. 319 00:18:49,261 --> 00:18:51,196 - You couldn't situate 320 00:18:51,296 --> 00:18:53,599 the encounter George Floyd had 321 00:18:53,665 --> 00:18:55,100 with those officers 322 00:18:55,167 --> 00:18:57,202 without understanding the larger pandemic 323 00:18:57,302 --> 00:18:58,837 and the economic devastation 324 00:18:58,937 --> 00:19:00,672 Black folks were going through. 325 00:19:00,772 --> 00:19:03,008 You couldn't separate the fact that Breonna Taylor 326 00:19:03,108 --> 00:19:05,511 was a frontline worker 327 00:19:05,611 --> 00:19:08,213 surviving COVID killed by police. 328 00:19:08,313 --> 00:19:12,451 All of that came to a head at that moment. 329 00:19:12,518 --> 00:19:13,819 In the face of a virus 330 00:19:13,886 --> 00:19:15,454 that was literally killing people, 331 00:19:15,521 --> 00:19:17,556 folks felt that it was still important 332 00:19:17,656 --> 00:19:18,857 to be in the street. 333 00:19:18,957 --> 00:19:20,492 So I understood it as a rupture. 334 00:19:20,559 --> 00:19:21,727 That's how I understand it. 335 00:19:23,495 --> 00:19:25,364 - What we're trying to do has never been done 336 00:19:25,464 --> 00:19:27,166 in the history on Earth! 337 00:19:27,232 --> 00:19:30,536 - Our lives matter. Black lives matter. 338 00:19:37,142 --> 00:19:38,477 - Our streets! - Our streets! 339 00:19:38,544 --> 00:19:39,811 - Our streets! - Our streets! 340 00:19:39,878 --> 00:19:41,346 - Our streets! - Our streets! 341 00:19:43,148 --> 00:19:46,885 - That uprising is so large because everyone was suffering. 342 00:19:48,554 --> 00:19:52,324 - Human life, let it marinate. 343 00:19:52,991 --> 00:19:54,726 So many people have reached out to me 344 00:19:54,826 --> 00:19:56,895 telling me they're sorry 345 00:19:56,995 --> 00:19:59,231 that this happened to my family. 346 00:19:59,331 --> 00:20:01,934 Well, don't be sorry 'cause this has been happening 347 00:20:02,034 --> 00:20:04,570 to my family for a long time. 348 00:20:04,670 --> 00:20:11,009 Emmett Till is my family. Philando, Mike Brown, Sandra. 349 00:20:11,076 --> 00:20:13,445 This has been happening to my family. 350 00:20:13,545 --> 00:20:16,381 - And so by the time George Floyd come around, 351 00:20:16,448 --> 00:20:18,083 I'm not surprised. 352 00:20:18,183 --> 00:20:19,251 - Unarmed. - Unarmed. 353 00:20:19,351 --> 00:20:20,552 - Unarmed. - Black teenager. 354 00:20:20,619 --> 00:20:21,720 - 18-year-old. 355 00:20:21,787 --> 00:20:23,088 - 26-year-old. - 17. 356 00:20:23,188 --> 00:20:24,923 - African American man. - Chicago woman. 357 00:20:25,023 --> 00:20:26,558 - Shot and killed by police. 358 00:20:26,625 --> 00:20:28,260 - Having any kind of conversation around this 359 00:20:28,360 --> 00:20:30,929 with anybody that ain't Black is a chore in itself. 360 00:20:31,029 --> 00:20:34,633 - This is nothing new. I'm not sad. 361 00:20:34,733 --> 00:20:37,936 I'm not sorry. I'm angry. 362 00:20:38,036 --> 00:20:42,941 And I'm tired. I haven't cried one time. 363 00:20:43,041 --> 00:20:45,777 I stopped crying years ago. 364 00:20:45,877 --> 00:20:48,280 I am numb. 365 00:20:48,380 --> 00:20:50,983 I have been watching police murder people 366 00:20:51,083 --> 00:20:53,452 that look like me for years. 367 00:20:55,554 --> 00:20:58,123 - The dream of Black people in the United States 368 00:20:58,223 --> 00:21:02,127 necessitates the destruction of this country 369 00:21:02,227 --> 00:21:05,297 from its roots. 370 00:21:05,397 --> 00:21:07,599 - They don't give two damns about us, 371 00:21:07,666 --> 00:21:09,501 and a lot of us always turn around 372 00:21:09,601 --> 00:21:12,471 worrying about what's good for America, what's good-- 373 00:21:12,571 --> 00:21:16,008 later for America. What's good for Black people? 374 00:21:16,108 --> 00:21:19,911 - We must arm ourselves, that we are in imminent danger. 375 00:21:19,978 --> 00:21:21,613 - Am I under arrest? Am I under arrest? 376 00:21:21,680 --> 00:21:23,148 - Why don't you place him under arrest? 377 00:21:23,248 --> 00:21:25,350 - Liberation is not about being killed. 378 00:21:25,450 --> 00:21:27,319 We are not interested in those suicides. 379 00:21:27,419 --> 00:21:31,290 - We must continue to push for all of our demands. 380 00:21:31,356 --> 00:21:34,293 - We want a new life. - All power to the people. 381 00:21:37,596 --> 00:21:40,532 - We want a life that we remember vaguely 382 00:21:40,632 --> 00:21:43,001 sometimes in the back of our heads 383 00:21:43,101 --> 00:21:45,170 as a liberated African people. 384 00:21:47,506 --> 00:21:49,374 - I think it's generally agreed 385 00:21:49,474 --> 00:21:51,677 that if we are to solve our problems, 386 00:21:51,777 --> 00:21:54,946 we've got to transform our powerlessness 387 00:21:55,013 --> 00:21:57,516 into causative and creative power. 388 00:21:57,616 --> 00:22:00,385 - Then you talk about Black power. 389 00:22:00,485 --> 00:22:02,688 I wanna know what's wrong with it. 390 00:22:02,788 --> 00:22:04,456 - We believe that Black power 391 00:22:04,523 --> 00:22:06,692 is not only legitimate, 392 00:22:06,792 --> 00:22:09,995 it is necessary because we feel it. 393 00:22:10,996 --> 00:22:13,031 - We want Black power. - Black power! 394 00:22:13,131 --> 00:22:15,200 - We want Black power. 395 00:22:15,300 --> 00:22:18,837 We want Black power! We want Black power! 396 00:22:20,906 --> 00:22:22,908 - A lot of people call a revolution 397 00:22:23,008 --> 00:22:24,710 a confrontation. 398 00:22:24,810 --> 00:22:27,145 Really what you and I meant by revolution 399 00:22:27,212 --> 00:22:29,348 was a need to revolve more political power 400 00:22:29,414 --> 00:22:31,883 and economic power back into the hands of the people. 401 00:22:31,983 --> 00:22:33,218 That's really what revolution is. 402 00:22:33,318 --> 00:22:34,553 - Power is always being used 403 00:22:34,653 --> 00:22:35,887 against us, right? 404 00:22:35,987 --> 00:22:37,022 Power has been used 405 00:22:37,089 --> 00:22:38,590 as a force to oppress us, 406 00:22:38,690 --> 00:22:41,093 and so we naturally grow up feeling like power 407 00:22:41,193 --> 00:22:45,230 is inherently negative and bad, but power is neutral, right? 408 00:22:45,330 --> 00:22:48,600 Power can absolutely be shared. Power can be broken up. 409 00:22:48,700 --> 00:22:51,436 Power can be used. Power should not be hidden. 410 00:22:51,536 --> 00:22:53,171 Power should be discussed and talked about. 411 00:22:53,238 --> 00:22:54,840 And when Black people have power, 412 00:22:54,906 --> 00:22:57,008 we have the opportunity to show what life looks like 413 00:22:57,075 --> 00:22:58,577 when people use their power 414 00:22:58,677 --> 00:23:01,012 for the betterment of other people. 415 00:23:01,079 --> 00:23:04,516 - What the Black Panther Party has done and was able to do 416 00:23:04,583 --> 00:23:08,253 and where they emphasized their work or effort, 417 00:23:08,353 --> 00:23:10,255 you know, absolutely hitting the streets, 418 00:23:10,355 --> 00:23:13,024 absolutely talking to people, and they're also organizing 419 00:23:13,091 --> 00:23:16,228 but also caring for their communities too. 420 00:23:31,243 --> 00:23:33,278 - The idea was obviously twofold 421 00:23:33,378 --> 00:23:35,781 for the specific purpose of serving those people 422 00:23:35,881 --> 00:23:38,884 who were directly benefited by our programs, 423 00:23:38,950 --> 00:23:40,952 but also secondarily to influence 424 00:23:41,052 --> 00:23:42,788 the minds of people to understand 425 00:23:42,888 --> 00:23:44,956 not only that the Black Panther Party 426 00:23:45,056 --> 00:23:47,426 was providing them this, but more importantly, 427 00:23:47,492 --> 00:23:49,127 that if they could get food, 428 00:23:49,227 --> 00:23:50,829 that maybe they would want clothing, 429 00:23:50,929 --> 00:23:52,564 and maybe they want housing, and maybe they'd want land, 430 00:23:52,631 --> 00:23:53,932 and maybe they would ultimately 431 00:23:53,999 --> 00:23:56,067 want some abstract thing called freedom. 432 00:23:56,134 --> 00:23:59,271 - Power is who gets to set the choices, 433 00:23:59,337 --> 00:24:00,972 who gets to set the options. 434 00:24:01,072 --> 00:24:02,941 I want Black people to have more choices. 435 00:24:03,008 --> 00:24:04,643 I want them to define what those choices are, 436 00:24:04,743 --> 00:24:05,977 not just respond to what 437 00:24:06,077 --> 00:24:08,113 has been given to them as the options. 438 00:24:08,180 --> 00:24:11,783 - Affirmative action is not reverse discrimination. 439 00:24:11,850 --> 00:24:14,252 It is rather the recognition of the fact 440 00:24:14,319 --> 00:24:16,421 that, for over 200 years, 441 00:24:16,488 --> 00:24:19,991 Black persons in these United States of America 442 00:24:20,091 --> 00:24:21,460 have been excluded 443 00:24:21,526 --> 00:24:24,830 from the economic, social, and political milieu 444 00:24:24,930 --> 00:24:26,331 of this great country. 445 00:24:26,431 --> 00:24:27,666 - We got to be in every arena 446 00:24:27,766 --> 00:24:29,334 where they have power. 447 00:24:29,434 --> 00:24:31,603 We got to be willing to go contest for it. 448 00:24:31,670 --> 00:24:33,171 - Tonight we show the world 449 00:24:33,271 --> 00:24:35,340 that working people are united. 450 00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:38,343 - We want teachers who understand our community. 451 00:24:38,443 --> 00:24:40,645 - We will not compromise on any term. 452 00:24:40,712 --> 00:24:42,848 - We are reclaiming this house 453 00:24:42,948 --> 00:24:45,350 from a billion-dollar corporation. 454 00:24:47,986 --> 00:24:50,355 - The Black Panther Party talked about the police 455 00:24:50,455 --> 00:24:53,892 as an occupying force in the community, 456 00:24:53,992 --> 00:24:58,530 but we had not really understood the extent 457 00:24:58,630 --> 00:25:01,166 to which the whole criminal justice system, 458 00:25:01,233 --> 00:25:04,169 the police, the courts, 459 00:25:04,236 --> 00:25:06,738 the prison system 460 00:25:06,838 --> 00:25:09,741 is very much intertwined 461 00:25:09,841 --> 00:25:14,346 with the economic oppression 462 00:25:14,412 --> 00:25:16,047 of Black people. 463 00:25:16,147 --> 00:25:18,383 - The carceral system, it's a whole pie, right? 464 00:25:18,483 --> 00:25:20,018 It's a whole thing. It has many slices. 465 00:25:20,085 --> 00:25:21,386 Many different things that come into it. 466 00:25:21,486 --> 00:25:22,888 We got cut somewhere. 467 00:25:22,988 --> 00:25:25,390 We give our permission to cage our folks. 468 00:25:26,992 --> 00:25:29,528 We take the resources from this jail, 469 00:25:29,594 --> 00:25:32,230 our folks will be better off because that money 470 00:25:32,330 --> 00:25:33,598 can go to our people, 471 00:25:33,698 --> 00:25:35,066 and people can go home. 472 00:25:35,166 --> 00:25:37,002 - So when we say "defund the police," 473 00:25:37,068 --> 00:25:40,772 we mean take their money and invest it in the things 474 00:25:40,872 --> 00:25:43,742 that actually create safe communities. 475 00:25:43,842 --> 00:25:46,244 We mean reimagine public safety. 476 00:25:46,344 --> 00:25:49,514 When we defund the police, we have the capacity 477 00:25:49,581 --> 00:25:53,385 to reimagine public safety and invest those dollars 478 00:25:53,451 --> 00:25:57,622 in what actually makes safe communities. 479 00:25:57,722 --> 00:26:00,058 - When you have power, you have the ability 480 00:26:00,125 --> 00:26:01,760 to make your tomorrows 481 00:26:01,860 --> 00:26:04,095 look like you wanted them to look like. 482 00:26:04,195 --> 00:26:06,565 - I was talking about time. 483 00:26:06,631 --> 00:26:09,267 It's so hard for me to believe in it. 484 00:26:09,367 --> 00:26:13,471 Some things go pass on. Some things just stay. 485 00:26:13,572 --> 00:26:16,808 I used to think it was my rememory. 486 00:26:26,585 --> 00:26:28,420 - Who told you to buy a brownstone 487 00:26:28,486 --> 00:26:31,289 on my block in my neighborhood on my side of the street? 488 00:26:31,389 --> 00:26:33,224 - And our new Miss America 489 00:26:33,291 --> 00:26:34,626 is Vanessa Williams, Miss New York! 490 00:26:34,726 --> 00:26:35,961 - ...This happen just because 491 00:26:36,061 --> 00:26:37,429 you were walking down the street 492 00:26:37,495 --> 00:26:38,597 in a neighborhood where people 493 00:26:38,663 --> 00:26:39,965 thought you didn't belong? 494 00:26:40,065 --> 00:26:42,000 - Stop worrying about integrating 495 00:26:42,100 --> 00:26:43,802 and being accepted and start thinking 496 00:26:43,902 --> 00:26:47,005 about building for yourself, for our people 497 00:26:47,105 --> 00:26:51,476 so that we can provide a future for our children. 498 00:26:54,846 --> 00:26:56,314 - Liftoff. 499 00:26:56,414 --> 00:26:58,650 - If we were up in space, I would be floating around. 500 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:03,088 - Lift me! 501 00:27:03,154 --> 00:27:04,990 - You've seen these young children. 502 00:27:05,090 --> 00:27:07,592 - What is it, a crime to be Black in this country? 503 00:27:09,260 --> 00:27:12,330 - I felt that I had to tell the truth. 504 00:27:12,430 --> 00:27:14,432 I could not keep silent. 505 00:27:17,936 --> 00:27:20,505 - You know, the end of the '80s, early '90s 506 00:27:20,605 --> 00:27:23,274 was very similar to this moment in history 507 00:27:23,341 --> 00:27:25,510 where there was a lot of uprising, 508 00:27:25,610 --> 00:27:28,680 a lot of, you know, people 509 00:27:28,780 --> 00:27:31,316 who were doing movement work. 510 00:27:31,383 --> 00:27:34,519 - We will picket. We will sit in. 511 00:27:34,619 --> 00:27:36,721 - Corrupt creatures-- - We will march. 512 00:27:36,821 --> 00:27:38,123 - Do you think age 513 00:27:38,189 --> 00:27:39,624 is a problem in your community? 514 00:27:39,691 --> 00:27:42,360 - You will be hunted no matter what you do. 515 00:27:42,460 --> 00:27:44,529 - They said we did not have name. 516 00:27:44,629 --> 00:27:45,897 - Where is the justice? 517 00:27:45,997 --> 00:27:49,134 - Things like this still exist in America. 518 00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:52,671 - I feel like the movement of the '80s and '90s is lost. 519 00:27:52,737 --> 00:27:55,040 I came up in that. There are young people-- 520 00:27:55,140 --> 00:27:57,242 I met a young person from Ferguson 521 00:27:57,342 --> 00:27:59,077 who was part of the Ferguson uprising 522 00:27:59,177 --> 00:28:02,080 and stuff who was--beautiful spirit, 523 00:28:02,180 --> 00:28:04,749 but he was telling me like, "We finally got, you know, 524 00:28:04,849 --> 00:28:07,218 people pushing back against police brutality." 525 00:28:07,318 --> 00:28:08,520 And I was like, "Are you-- 526 00:28:08,586 --> 00:28:11,322 are you-- what are you talking about?" 527 00:28:11,389 --> 00:28:13,324 - What was happening to me was happening 528 00:28:13,391 --> 00:28:15,560 to virtually everyone whom you could identify 529 00:28:15,660 --> 00:28:17,729 in that community who was of color. 530 00:28:17,829 --> 00:28:19,264 - Today we're willing to get arrested 531 00:28:19,364 --> 00:28:21,599 just so Giuliani knows that we're really serious 532 00:28:21,700 --> 00:28:23,268 and that the police shootings must stop. 533 00:28:23,368 --> 00:28:26,571 - What happened today with Rodney King was unjust. 534 00:28:26,671 --> 00:28:28,506 - Why'd they have to beat the mess out of him like that? 535 00:28:28,573 --> 00:28:31,576 - Movement has to continue or it's not movement. 536 00:28:31,676 --> 00:28:36,448 And so it may be lulls in it, but it never stops. 537 00:28:36,548 --> 00:28:41,453 So many people jump from the '60s to 2013. 538 00:28:42,454 --> 00:28:44,389 Yusef Hawkins, 539 00:28:44,456 --> 00:28:47,692 Amadou Diallo, Abner Louima. 540 00:28:47,759 --> 00:28:50,428 I was in the streets for all of that. 541 00:28:50,528 --> 00:28:52,797 Million Youth March was, like, '98. 542 00:28:52,897 --> 00:28:55,433 That was huge. 543 00:28:55,533 --> 00:28:57,435 We were protesting. We were marching. 544 00:28:57,535 --> 00:29:00,438 We were organizing, but a lot of that is lost. 545 00:29:00,538 --> 00:29:02,273 Guilty, guilty, guilty! 546 00:29:02,373 --> 00:29:07,112 Guilty, guilty, guilty! Guilty, guilty, guilty! 547 00:29:09,581 --> 00:29:12,817 - The documentation of movements, 548 00:29:12,917 --> 00:29:14,953 they're essential. 549 00:29:15,053 --> 00:29:17,122 And... 550 00:29:17,222 --> 00:29:19,491 where would I be without that information? 551 00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:24,729 I may have learned it a little late, 552 00:29:24,796 --> 00:29:27,132 but I needed it. 553 00:29:27,232 --> 00:29:29,801 I needed to know the truth. 554 00:29:29,901 --> 00:29:31,603 What happens when we isolate, 555 00:29:31,669 --> 00:29:34,172 when we single-story a systemic issue? 556 00:29:34,272 --> 00:29:35,907 If we only see 557 00:29:35,974 --> 00:29:37,809 Martin Luther King Jr. for example. 558 00:29:37,909 --> 00:29:40,912 - We are depending on moral and spiritual forces. 559 00:29:40,979 --> 00:29:43,815 using the method of passive resistance. 560 00:29:43,915 --> 00:29:47,152 - If we see him without the administration, 561 00:29:47,252 --> 00:29:49,921 without all the Black women that made it possible, 562 00:29:49,988 --> 00:29:51,322 without Malcolm, 563 00:29:51,422 --> 00:29:53,591 without understanding the story of the nation. 564 00:29:53,658 --> 00:29:56,961 - By any means necessary. 565 00:29:57,028 --> 00:29:58,663 - Sure, I learned about Bayard. 566 00:29:58,763 --> 00:30:00,598 - My point is that all the police, 567 00:30:00,665 --> 00:30:03,368 all the curfews, all the bully clubs, 568 00:30:03,468 --> 00:30:06,204 all the guns will not stop rioting. 569 00:30:06,304 --> 00:30:08,273 - But where were the other queer and trans people? 570 00:30:08,339 --> 00:30:11,843 But the truth is, there were more of us 571 00:30:11,943 --> 00:30:13,611 than I could even know about 572 00:30:13,678 --> 00:30:17,949 because I'm here, and I'm not so unique. 573 00:30:18,016 --> 00:30:20,185 I'm not so special. 574 00:30:20,285 --> 00:30:23,721 - We had to find things, uncover things. 575 00:30:23,822 --> 00:30:26,391 So much was hidden. So much was untold. 576 00:30:26,491 --> 00:30:29,661 So much stuff was not even given a space 577 00:30:29,727 --> 00:30:33,531 to be able to exist, right? 578 00:30:33,631 --> 00:30:35,700 So there are many lost stories, 579 00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:38,002 stories that weren't told at all. 580 00:30:38,069 --> 00:30:41,573 - I do mourn for those stories, 581 00:30:41,673 --> 00:30:43,374 that nuance, those details 582 00:30:43,474 --> 00:30:46,744 that inevitably get lost in time. 583 00:30:50,315 --> 00:30:52,417 - I truly believe from the bottom of my heart 584 00:30:52,517 --> 00:30:55,420 that Black trans women are the architects of resilience. 585 00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:59,591 I think about ancestors like Francis Thompson. 586 00:31:00,825 --> 00:31:02,560 Many of us were taught in schools 587 00:31:02,660 --> 00:31:04,829 that Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the first woman to testify 588 00:31:04,896 --> 00:31:06,497 before a congressional committee, 589 00:31:06,564 --> 00:31:08,900 but in reality, it was Francis Thompson, 590 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:12,170 a formerly enslaved Black disabled trans woman. 591 00:31:13,504 --> 00:31:15,907 That testimony about the atrocities 592 00:31:16,007 --> 00:31:18,610 that happened during the Memphis riots 593 00:31:18,710 --> 00:31:20,278 was the reason why the 14th amendment 594 00:31:20,378 --> 00:31:24,115 was ratified, which afforded Black Americans 595 00:31:24,215 --> 00:31:26,584 equal protection under the law. 596 00:31:27,719 --> 00:31:29,454 A Black trans woman's legacy 597 00:31:29,554 --> 00:31:30,922 is forever engraved 598 00:31:31,022 --> 00:31:33,358 in the United States Constitution. 599 00:31:34,058 --> 00:31:35,560 The reason why she was robbed 600 00:31:35,627 --> 00:31:37,962 of her historical acknowledgment 601 00:31:38,062 --> 00:31:42,734 is because years later there started to be rumors 602 00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:45,904 that she was assigned male at birth. 603 00:31:46,938 --> 00:31:50,308 Francis Thompson's story is not an uncommon one. 604 00:31:58,750 --> 00:32:01,920 - Darling, I want my gay rights now. 605 00:32:01,986 --> 00:32:03,821 I think it's about time 606 00:32:03,922 --> 00:32:06,457 the gay brothers and sisters got their rights. 607 00:32:06,557 --> 00:32:08,927 - You know, when I was a kid, 608 00:32:08,993 --> 00:32:12,163 I couldn't see far into the future. 609 00:32:12,263 --> 00:32:15,300 I didn't see myself very far into the future. 610 00:32:16,301 --> 00:32:19,337 There was so much richness, so much joy in my life, 611 00:32:19,437 --> 00:32:21,606 but I grew up queer, 612 00:32:21,673 --> 00:32:23,975 and I didn't know many queer people 613 00:32:24,075 --> 00:32:26,477 who were the age that I am now. 614 00:32:26,577 --> 00:32:28,079 So many people didn't make it that far. 615 00:32:28,146 --> 00:32:30,848 - You need to begin with a movement 616 00:32:30,949 --> 00:32:32,150 which is what Black Power 617 00:32:32,250 --> 00:32:33,685 and the Civil Rights Movement was. 618 00:32:33,785 --> 00:32:35,186 Then immediately within it, 619 00:32:35,286 --> 00:32:36,854 you are going to get those people 620 00:32:36,955 --> 00:32:39,857 whose differences are not being articulated. 621 00:32:39,958 --> 00:32:43,161 - For me, it's a discovery to be this age. 622 00:32:43,261 --> 00:32:47,098 Life or God is out here creating 623 00:32:47,165 --> 00:32:50,001 just so many different ways of being. 624 00:32:51,769 --> 00:32:53,504 What if I looked at the world with reverence 625 00:32:53,604 --> 00:32:56,140 and not control? What would I see? 626 00:32:56,207 --> 00:32:57,775 - Those balls and all that, 627 00:32:57,842 --> 00:33:00,144 that's like our fantasy of being a superstar. 628 00:33:00,211 --> 00:33:01,679 - What if I looked at myself 629 00:33:01,779 --> 00:33:03,948 with curiosity and not control? 630 00:33:06,651 --> 00:33:07,852 - It helps out when somebody else 631 00:33:07,952 --> 00:33:08,853 is there in your corner. 632 00:33:08,953 --> 00:33:10,221 - 'Cause with y'all 633 00:33:10,321 --> 00:33:12,323 vicious mother , it do take nerve. 634 00:33:12,390 --> 00:33:15,994 - And allowed myself to discover myself, 635 00:33:16,060 --> 00:33:18,696 to unfold in front of myself. 636 00:33:18,796 --> 00:33:21,799 That's what my experience as a queer person 637 00:33:21,866 --> 00:33:24,035 is really about. 638 00:33:24,135 --> 00:33:27,839 - I know how you watch as you grow older--literally, 639 00:33:27,905 --> 00:33:30,041 that is not a figure of speech-- 640 00:33:30,141 --> 00:33:31,509 the corpses of your brothers 641 00:33:31,576 --> 00:33:33,578 and your sisters pile up around you 642 00:33:33,678 --> 00:33:37,215 and not for anything they have done. 643 00:33:37,315 --> 00:33:39,717 They were too young to have done anything. 644 00:33:39,817 --> 00:33:42,186 In any case, too helpless. 645 00:33:42,253 --> 00:33:46,324 - Also just the wonder of creation, you know, 646 00:33:46,391 --> 00:33:49,894 that I am, that we are. 647 00:33:49,994 --> 00:33:53,564 That's really been the teacher of queerness for me. 648 00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:59,070 - I don't want there to ever be a moment 649 00:33:59,170 --> 00:34:01,105 in which someone else can tell us 650 00:34:01,205 --> 00:34:03,941 what was true for us, 651 00:34:04,042 --> 00:34:09,614 and we not have the proof, 652 00:34:09,714 --> 00:34:11,249 the material, 653 00:34:11,349 --> 00:34:15,853 the documentation to show otherwise. 654 00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:20,758 We know what erasure can do to us. 655 00:34:24,028 --> 00:34:28,099 - What movement does each time and what we are seeing happen 656 00:34:28,199 --> 00:34:31,436 is that we're starting to even tease apart 657 00:34:31,536 --> 00:34:33,738 the things that our movement has not done right, right? 658 00:34:33,805 --> 00:34:37,108 The things that have been unseen that we made unseen. 659 00:34:37,208 --> 00:34:38,609 And the thing that I think about the most 660 00:34:38,709 --> 00:34:42,480 is how this iteration of movement centers 661 00:34:42,580 --> 00:34:44,649 and lifts up the voices of people 662 00:34:44,749 --> 00:34:47,285 who are often silenced in previous moments, right? 663 00:34:47,385 --> 00:34:49,787 That, like, our labor has been unseen. 664 00:34:49,887 --> 00:34:51,756 Our contributions have been unseen. 665 00:34:51,823 --> 00:34:53,658 What does it mean for Black queer women 666 00:34:53,758 --> 00:34:55,426 to be at the forefront of a movement? 667 00:34:55,493 --> 00:34:56,894 What does it mean for trans folks 668 00:34:56,961 --> 00:34:59,130 to be leading in this time? 669 00:34:59,230 --> 00:35:00,965 - Ours didn't really cover women 670 00:35:01,065 --> 00:35:02,633 as strongly as it should have, 671 00:35:02,733 --> 00:35:05,503 you know, but at least we got to see them. 672 00:35:08,573 --> 00:35:11,976 - It is staggering when you look at the history books 673 00:35:12,076 --> 00:35:13,411 and get a sense that this period 674 00:35:13,478 --> 00:35:15,746 was basically males because nothing 675 00:35:15,813 --> 00:35:18,749 could be further than the true. 676 00:35:18,816 --> 00:35:22,520 - Black women were playing extremely important roles. 677 00:35:22,620 --> 00:35:25,623 The Civil Rights Movement would not have been what it was 678 00:35:25,690 --> 00:35:28,993 without the roles of Fannie Lou Hamer 679 00:35:29,093 --> 00:35:31,863 and Daisy Bates and Ella Baker 680 00:35:31,963 --> 00:35:35,299 and Ruby Doris Robinson and Joanne Robinson, 681 00:35:35,366 --> 00:35:37,001 and we can go on and on and on. 682 00:35:37,101 --> 00:35:41,038 - We're not taught about Ida B. Wells, Ella Baker, 683 00:35:41,139 --> 00:35:43,474 Fannie Lou Hamer, right? 684 00:35:43,541 --> 00:35:45,776 And it's not just about the work that they did. 685 00:35:45,843 --> 00:35:48,846 I think it's also who they are as people. 686 00:35:48,946 --> 00:35:52,116 I know who I want to be, and it's informed 687 00:35:52,183 --> 00:35:53,718 by a lot of these Black women 688 00:35:53,818 --> 00:35:57,155 that I've seen, like, in movement spaces. 689 00:35:57,221 --> 00:36:00,057 - When we think about the ways in which Black women 690 00:36:00,158 --> 00:36:03,694 put our bodies on the line, our health on the line, 691 00:36:03,794 --> 00:36:07,865 and our safety on the line for the rights and dignity 692 00:36:07,965 --> 00:36:09,367 that everyone benefits from, 693 00:36:09,467 --> 00:36:14,839 but yet we're the last ones to reap the reward. 694 00:36:15,740 --> 00:36:19,377 - Black women have carried the labor 695 00:36:19,477 --> 00:36:22,480 of cultivating this country and this world 696 00:36:22,547 --> 00:36:24,849 on their shoulders in a particular way, 697 00:36:24,916 --> 00:36:26,417 and a particular experience. 698 00:36:26,517 --> 00:36:29,887 To navigate anti-Blackness, white supremacy, 699 00:36:29,987 --> 00:36:32,924 and then on top of it, navigate patriarchy, 700 00:36:33,024 --> 00:36:34,892 heteronormativity, transphobia, 701 00:36:34,992 --> 00:36:37,862 and all of these other levels of oppression 702 00:36:37,929 --> 00:36:39,530 creates this particular experience. 703 00:36:39,597 --> 00:36:41,866 - I have literally, since 14 years old, 704 00:36:41,933 --> 00:36:44,569 dedicated my life to Black people. 705 00:36:44,669 --> 00:36:47,772 I don't--there's nothing I love more than Black people. 706 00:36:47,872 --> 00:36:49,740 That includes Black men. 707 00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:52,410 I have stood by, worked with, held up, 708 00:36:52,510 --> 00:36:55,012 held down Black men my whole life. 709 00:36:55,079 --> 00:36:58,683 But the minute I talk about violence against Black women, 710 00:36:58,749 --> 00:37:01,786 I suddenly have become the enemy of Black men. 711 00:37:01,886 --> 00:37:04,589 There was this whole uprising around police brutality. 712 00:37:04,689 --> 00:37:06,057 Right? For the last several years, 713 00:37:06,123 --> 00:37:08,526 definitely. This new wave of people 714 00:37:08,593 --> 00:37:11,429 being outraged about police brutality. 715 00:37:11,529 --> 00:37:13,798 What people said to me is this is not the time 716 00:37:13,898 --> 00:37:17,134 for that "me too" stuff. We gotta deal with Black lives. 717 00:37:18,636 --> 00:37:21,072 And I'm incredulous, all right? 718 00:37:21,138 --> 00:37:25,610 I'm like, "So you think, you believe with all your heart 719 00:37:25,710 --> 00:37:27,445 "that Black lives matter, 720 00:37:27,545 --> 00:37:29,413 "and you don't think about the Black lives 721 00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:31,716 that are ruined by sexual violence?" 722 00:37:38,923 --> 00:37:40,291 Black women experience 723 00:37:40,391 --> 00:37:41,759 the second-highest rate of sexual violence 724 00:37:41,826 --> 00:37:43,961 in this country, and a lot of that violence 725 00:37:44,061 --> 00:37:46,330 happens at the hands of Black men. 726 00:37:46,430 --> 00:37:49,400 It's a truth that does not mean that Black men 727 00:37:49,467 --> 00:37:52,169 are bad, immoral, evil, 728 00:37:52,270 --> 00:37:55,606 but it does mean that we have to talk about something. 729 00:37:55,673 --> 00:37:57,475 There's a conversation to be had 730 00:37:57,575 --> 00:37:59,176 internally in our community. 731 00:38:02,246 --> 00:38:04,849 I need somewhere for this truth to live. 732 00:38:04,949 --> 00:38:07,618 This is a truth that Black women are holding. 733 00:38:21,766 --> 00:38:22,967 - Last year... - Okay. 734 00:38:23,034 --> 00:38:24,468 - Do you remember the young woman 735 00:38:24,535 --> 00:38:27,972 Oluwatoyin Salau? - Of course, Toyin, yeah. 736 00:38:29,607 --> 00:38:31,208 I didn't know you was gonna ask about that. 737 00:38:31,309 --> 00:38:33,377 It still makes me emotional. 738 00:38:36,647 --> 00:38:39,517 She was 19, you know? 739 00:38:39,617 --> 00:38:42,053 And she looked like one of my daughter's friends. 740 00:38:42,153 --> 00:38:44,722 - Our lives matter. Black lives matter. 741 00:38:44,822 --> 00:38:47,692 Black trans lives matter. - Yes! 742 00:38:47,792 --> 00:38:49,560 - Trans lives matter! 743 00:38:54,332 --> 00:38:56,000 You cannot take my Blackness 744 00:38:56,067 --> 00:38:57,301 away from me. 745 00:38:57,368 --> 00:38:58,369 My Blackness is not 746 00:38:58,469 --> 00:39:00,037 for your consumption! 747 00:39:00,137 --> 00:39:01,539 It is not! 748 00:39:01,639 --> 00:39:04,975 - There's no way that you should be able to 749 00:39:05,042 --> 00:39:08,179 go to a action... 750 00:39:08,245 --> 00:39:11,315 not have a place to stay, 751 00:39:11,382 --> 00:39:14,819 and sitting on a bus stop on your way 752 00:39:14,885 --> 00:39:18,556 to try to figure out your housing, 753 00:39:18,656 --> 00:39:21,192 be taken and killed. 754 00:39:25,096 --> 00:39:27,698 - That video is haunting. 755 00:39:27,765 --> 00:39:29,700 She's just dancing and laughing 756 00:39:29,767 --> 00:39:32,536 and twerking in the mirror and just being regular 757 00:39:32,603 --> 00:39:34,438 like what she should be-- 758 00:39:34,538 --> 00:39:37,074 free and feeling good about herself, 759 00:39:37,174 --> 00:39:39,410 and somebody took that away from her. 760 00:39:44,949 --> 00:39:47,918 She was running from sexual violence 761 00:39:48,018 --> 00:39:50,788 and ended up being vulnerable, 762 00:39:50,888 --> 00:39:52,356 and there's just not enough spaces 763 00:39:52,423 --> 00:39:55,760 for vulnerable Black girls to be safe. 764 00:39:57,695 --> 00:40:00,898 - She loved it so much... 765 00:40:00,965 --> 00:40:05,136 and she deserves to be here. 766 00:40:12,109 --> 00:40:16,414 I see so many Black women in her. 767 00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:20,751 I think about what could have been possible in her life. 768 00:40:20,818 --> 00:40:22,787 Who loved her? 769 00:40:22,887 --> 00:40:25,790 You know, what was important to her? 770 00:40:25,890 --> 00:40:27,758 Was she loved? 771 00:40:27,825 --> 00:40:30,294 Just her power and her dignity. 772 00:40:33,431 --> 00:40:35,132 When she told her story 773 00:40:35,232 --> 00:40:38,636 about what happened to her publicly, 774 00:40:38,736 --> 00:40:40,304 and I think about, 775 00:40:40,404 --> 00:40:45,409 "What if just someone would have listened, 776 00:40:45,476 --> 00:40:47,244 "would've been there, would have intervened 777 00:40:47,311 --> 00:40:49,113 in some kind of way?" 778 00:40:52,917 --> 00:40:55,820 - I don't know if we have solutions-- 779 00:40:55,920 --> 00:41:00,090 the necessary solutions to patriarchal violence yet. 780 00:41:01,325 --> 00:41:02,993 I want Black women particularly 781 00:41:03,093 --> 00:41:05,763 to be able to live out their wildest dreams, 782 00:41:05,830 --> 00:41:08,466 and so I hope that we can put more intention 783 00:41:08,532 --> 00:41:10,935 into asking Black women and girls, 784 00:41:11,001 --> 00:41:12,870 "What does it look like to feel safe? 785 00:41:12,970 --> 00:41:16,173 "What would need to happen here for you to feel safe, 786 00:41:16,273 --> 00:41:18,843 and how can we embody that?" 787 00:41:28,786 --> 00:41:30,154 - So many of our girls 788 00:41:30,221 --> 00:41:33,991 don't have a soft place to land. 789 00:41:51,375 --> 00:41:53,410 - Yer. - What? 790 00:41:53,511 --> 00:41:54,411 What is "yer"? 791 00:41:57,181 --> 00:41:58,816 - My dream sacred space 792 00:41:58,883 --> 00:42:01,252 involves a lot of trees around, 793 00:42:01,352 --> 00:42:04,522 to being close to nature and feeling around it. 794 00:42:06,156 --> 00:42:09,159 I would say that my sacred space 795 00:42:09,226 --> 00:42:12,196 will also have my dog Dream 'cause she's like-- 796 00:42:12,263 --> 00:42:13,330 - Puppy! - Yes. 797 00:42:13,397 --> 00:42:15,399 She's like-- she gives me-- 798 00:42:15,499 --> 00:42:17,268 like, you know, like, when I'm feeling sad 799 00:42:17,368 --> 00:42:19,169 or when I'm, like, depressed and laying in my bed, 800 00:42:19,236 --> 00:42:21,839 like if Dream comes and, like, licks my face or something, 801 00:42:21,906 --> 00:42:24,875 it's like everything to me. 802 00:42:24,942 --> 00:42:27,444 I would want a room that has-- 803 00:42:27,545 --> 00:42:30,347 that holds, like, a lot of emotional space for me 804 00:42:30,414 --> 00:42:32,550 to be vulnerable. 805 00:42:32,616 --> 00:42:35,519 And I think for me really to be okay 806 00:42:35,586 --> 00:42:37,087 with being vulnerable and not being like, 807 00:42:37,187 --> 00:42:38,756 "Well, you have to suck it up," 808 00:42:38,856 --> 00:42:40,624 or "You have to stop" because there's like 809 00:42:40,724 --> 00:42:43,093 all this other stuff going on. 810 00:42:43,193 --> 00:42:44,795 If I didn't have to worry about, like, 811 00:42:44,895 --> 00:42:46,363 all of this other outside stuff, 812 00:42:46,430 --> 00:42:47,932 there would be nothing holding me back, 813 00:42:48,032 --> 00:42:52,136 but I think the fear of, like, not being settled 814 00:42:52,236 --> 00:42:53,637 and not being like-- 815 00:42:53,737 --> 00:42:55,105 like it's not, like, necessarily, 816 00:42:55,205 --> 00:42:56,540 I guess, a safe space, 817 00:42:56,607 --> 00:42:58,542 but you know that your ends are gonna meet, 818 00:42:58,609 --> 00:43:00,277 and you're gonna, like-- you're gonna survive. 819 00:43:00,377 --> 00:43:03,948 And I think sometimes we choose survival over safe space. 820 00:43:15,726 --> 00:43:16,927 That's the ultimate goal. 821 00:43:16,994 --> 00:43:18,629 To just, like, be. - Yeah. 822 00:43:18,729 --> 00:43:20,264 - To be, and we've been talking about that all day. 823 00:43:20,331 --> 00:43:21,799 Like, no matter what we're gonna do, 824 00:43:21,899 --> 00:43:23,300 being a Black girl, like, 825 00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:24,802 there's always gonna be something, 826 00:43:24,902 --> 00:43:27,004 and sometimes you just want to be. 827 00:43:31,642 --> 00:43:33,844 - To me, building a home is like having 828 00:43:33,944 --> 00:43:38,082 my own sacred space where I think like, "You're safe. 829 00:43:38,148 --> 00:43:39,249 You're taken care of." 830 00:43:39,316 --> 00:43:40,751 Like, yes, life is difficult, 831 00:43:40,818 --> 00:43:42,353 but you're still growing every single day 832 00:43:42,453 --> 00:43:43,988 and everything is temporary. 833 00:44:22,292 --> 00:44:26,063 - A sacredness is a respect of the divine, 834 00:44:26,163 --> 00:44:28,732 even in places of trauma and terror. 835 00:45:13,844 --> 00:45:18,248 - These children unoffending, 836 00:45:18,348 --> 00:45:22,219 innocent, and beautiful... 837 00:45:23,787 --> 00:45:25,556 Were the victims of one 838 00:45:25,622 --> 00:45:30,894 of the most vicious and tragic crimes 839 00:45:30,961 --> 00:45:34,932 ever perpetrated against humanity. 840 00:45:35,032 --> 00:45:37,568 - 18 days after the March on Washington, 841 00:45:37,634 --> 00:45:39,236 Birmingham, Alabama, 842 00:45:39,303 --> 00:45:42,272 a bomb exploded in the 16th Street Baptist church 843 00:45:42,372 --> 00:45:44,408 just before a Sunday morning service. 844 00:45:44,475 --> 00:45:48,979 15 people were injured. Four children were killed. 845 00:45:51,148 --> 00:45:53,550 - They are the martyred heroines 846 00:45:53,617 --> 00:45:56,954 of a holy crusade 847 00:45:57,054 --> 00:46:00,224 for freedom and human dignity. 848 00:46:00,290 --> 00:46:02,259 We must be concerned 849 00:46:02,326 --> 00:46:05,763 not merely about who murdered them, 850 00:46:05,829 --> 00:46:08,799 but about the system, the way of life, 851 00:46:08,899 --> 00:46:12,736 the philosophy which produced the murderers. 852 00:46:25,249 --> 00:46:27,785 - Good night, sweet princesses. 853 00:46:31,121 --> 00:46:34,091 - May the flight of angels 854 00:46:34,158 --> 00:46:38,695 take thee to thy eternal rest. 855 00:47:10,627 --> 00:47:13,897 - Places like Ferguson and Baltimore 856 00:47:13,997 --> 00:47:16,033 where these uprisings took place 857 00:47:16,133 --> 00:47:18,702 after these state-sanctioned killings 858 00:47:18,802 --> 00:47:20,504 are hallow ground, right? 859 00:47:20,571 --> 00:47:25,175 And so seven years almost after Mike Brown is killed, 860 00:47:25,242 --> 00:47:28,812 I can't go on Canfield Drive 861 00:47:28,879 --> 00:47:33,483 and not feel immense energy, 862 00:47:33,550 --> 00:47:35,752 like, coming from the concrete. 863 00:47:44,895 --> 00:47:48,765 - A sacredness is a respect of the divine, 864 00:47:48,866 --> 00:47:51,368 even in places of trauma and terror, 865 00:47:51,435 --> 00:47:53,437 that there's this idea and understanding 866 00:47:53,537 --> 00:47:55,038 that there is something more to this, 867 00:47:55,105 --> 00:47:56,740 that there is a spiritual dimension, 868 00:47:56,840 --> 00:47:58,508 that there's always something happening 869 00:47:58,575 --> 00:48:02,045 behind the scenes that we can't see. 870 00:48:06,850 --> 00:48:09,386 I also I wanna uplift that 871 00:48:09,453 --> 00:48:11,188 anywhere where Black people are 872 00:48:11,255 --> 00:48:13,390 is a sacred space. You know? 873 00:48:15,926 --> 00:48:17,728 - What then is Black 874 00:48:17,794 --> 00:48:21,031 that it should be redefined? 875 00:48:24,401 --> 00:48:29,406 Black is the form of forms, 876 00:48:29,473 --> 00:48:33,477 the womb of infinity 877 00:48:33,577 --> 00:48:37,614 out of which all things come 878 00:48:37,714 --> 00:48:41,718 and to which they in time return. 879 00:48:44,588 --> 00:48:50,661 It contains all things without distinction. 880 00:48:50,761 --> 00:48:53,730 In its deep pitch, 881 00:48:53,797 --> 00:48:57,401 the seed of life begins. 882 00:48:57,467 --> 00:49:02,472 From its dark down comes healing sleep. 883 00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:06,810 To its merciful ink, 884 00:49:06,910 --> 00:49:10,480 consciousness flees pain. 885 00:49:10,580 --> 00:49:13,684 From its infinite reach 886 00:49:13,784 --> 00:49:15,786 comes the light of day. 887 00:49:18,422 --> 00:49:21,925 Black plagued, blacklist, 888 00:49:21,992 --> 00:49:25,162 Black Sunday, black market 889 00:49:25,262 --> 00:49:26,797 notwithstanding. 890 00:49:28,932 --> 00:49:31,034 - Roll 428. Marker. 891 00:49:33,203 --> 00:49:36,039 - And I'm gonna ask you one more time. 892 00:49:36,139 --> 00:49:38,642 You go--all Mississippi people go through, 893 00:49:38,709 --> 00:49:40,711 the violence, the struggles, the... 894 00:49:40,811 --> 00:49:42,646 Why-- 895 00:49:42,713 --> 00:49:45,349 why do you stay in Mississippi? 896 00:49:45,449 --> 00:49:47,517 - We put a lot in it. 897 00:49:47,617 --> 00:49:51,488 People like myself was born on this river. 898 00:49:53,357 --> 00:49:57,494 I love the land. It's the Delta. 899 00:49:57,561 --> 00:50:01,798 And to me it's now a challenge. It's history. 900 00:50:01,865 --> 00:50:05,035 It's everything of what Black people is all about. 901 00:50:05,135 --> 00:50:08,038 We came up out of slavery. 902 00:50:09,373 --> 00:50:11,708 And this is where we acted it out, 903 00:50:11,808 --> 00:50:14,711 I suppose, all of the work, all of the hard work, 904 00:50:14,811 --> 00:50:16,213 and all that. 905 00:50:16,313 --> 00:50:20,350 But we put in our blood, sweat, and tears, 906 00:50:20,417 --> 00:50:22,552 and we love the land. 907 00:50:29,326 --> 00:50:32,329 - It's only fitting that--and inevitable 908 00:50:32,396 --> 00:50:36,233 that Vincent Harding would be our first speaker. 909 00:50:36,333 --> 00:50:39,236 He was without doubt 910 00:50:39,336 --> 00:50:41,438 the spiritual father in many ways 911 00:50:41,538 --> 00:50:44,541 of "Eyes" and led us from the very beginning. 912 00:50:44,608 --> 00:50:47,344 - In this period, 913 00:50:47,411 --> 00:50:51,048 I think that the major part 914 00:50:51,114 --> 00:50:53,683 of our experience 915 00:50:53,750 --> 00:50:57,888 has been the search for alternative visions. 916 00:50:58,755 --> 00:51:03,293 And we have gone in our own past... 917 00:51:03,393 --> 00:51:05,562 and in the past of others 918 00:51:05,629 --> 00:51:08,865 to look for those alternative visions. 919 00:51:21,044 --> 00:51:22,779 - If you're only looking at what's in front of you, 920 00:51:22,879 --> 00:51:26,483 you can't look up. 921 00:51:30,787 --> 00:51:33,590 - Matter cannot be created nor destroyed. 922 00:51:33,657 --> 00:51:36,493 I existed from the beginning of time. 923 00:51:36,593 --> 00:51:38,595 I just didn't exist in this form. 924 00:51:38,662 --> 00:51:42,732 All the particles and atoms in me 925 00:51:42,799 --> 00:51:44,134 were somewhere. 926 00:51:44,234 --> 00:51:47,237 They just weren't together yet to form me. 927 00:51:47,304 --> 00:51:49,272 And so I've been here. 928 00:51:49,339 --> 00:51:53,310 I have pride that I'm related in some form or fashion 929 00:51:53,410 --> 00:51:55,312 to whatever heritage that I, unfortunately, 930 00:51:55,412 --> 00:51:58,348 I don't know about. I share their blood. 931 00:51:58,448 --> 00:52:01,284 They live inside me in some form or fashion, 932 00:52:01,351 --> 00:52:03,987 and their energy has traveled with me too. 933 00:52:04,087 --> 00:52:06,823 And I feel like they will always continue to guide us. 934 00:52:06,923 --> 00:52:08,792 They will always live in us. 935 00:52:11,628 --> 00:52:16,199 - My dreams are a space of radical imagination. 936 00:52:17,767 --> 00:52:21,872 They are not restricted and confined to a world 937 00:52:21,972 --> 00:52:25,041 in which white supremacy has dominated. 938 00:52:25,142 --> 00:52:29,846 They allow for creativity and exploration. 939 00:52:32,115 --> 00:52:34,017 Sometimes what we are fighting for 940 00:52:34,117 --> 00:52:35,852 is right in front of us. 941 00:52:35,952 --> 00:52:37,654 It's a safe house along the way 942 00:52:37,721 --> 00:52:39,289 to the North Star. 943 00:52:39,356 --> 00:52:40,957 Getting people safe, 944 00:52:41,024 --> 00:52:43,627 improving their conditions gives them opportunity 945 00:52:43,693 --> 00:52:46,396 to think about the North Star because if you're only looking 946 00:52:46,496 --> 00:52:49,399 at what's in front of you, you can't look up. 947 00:52:53,904 --> 00:52:55,572 - If we're gonna talk about a Black dream, 948 00:52:55,672 --> 00:52:59,409 a Black African American dream, a Black diasporic dream, 949 00:52:59,509 --> 00:53:01,244 it has to start at the radical root. 950 00:53:01,344 --> 00:53:03,813 Who are we when we are not the benefactors 951 00:53:03,880 --> 00:53:06,383 of the exploitation of women, 952 00:53:06,483 --> 00:53:07,751 the exploitation of people 953 00:53:07,851 --> 00:53:09,586 in so-called third world nations, 954 00:53:09,686 --> 00:53:11,488 the exploitation of domestic colonies 955 00:53:11,555 --> 00:53:12,889 within the United States? 956 00:53:12,989 --> 00:53:15,659 Who are we when we reach that self-actualization, 957 00:53:15,725 --> 00:53:17,394 that community actualization 958 00:53:17,494 --> 00:53:20,864 where we can just be? Be who we're supposed to be? 959 00:53:20,931 --> 00:53:22,766 - This work is about bringing people 960 00:53:22,866 --> 00:53:24,401 back to their true nature, 961 00:53:24,501 --> 00:53:26,102 to what you were before the terror 962 00:53:26,203 --> 00:53:27,237 of white supremacy, 963 00:53:27,337 --> 00:53:29,739 to what you were before the lies, 964 00:53:29,839 --> 00:53:31,575 the terror of capitalism. 965 00:53:33,043 --> 00:53:34,611 - Healing is the work of getting 966 00:53:34,711 --> 00:53:37,113 other people's stories out of your system, 967 00:53:37,214 --> 00:53:40,116 other people's shame out of your body. 968 00:53:42,852 --> 00:53:46,690 - When I think about how our ancestors lived 969 00:53:46,756 --> 00:53:49,759 and I think about African indigeneity, 970 00:53:49,859 --> 00:53:51,461 in particular, 971 00:53:51,561 --> 00:53:55,465 there wasn't "time." There was space. 972 00:53:55,565 --> 00:53:57,434 There was us. There was place. 973 00:53:57,534 --> 00:54:00,537 There was community. There was sustenance. 974 00:54:00,604 --> 00:54:04,441 And that so much of what we operated by 975 00:54:04,541 --> 00:54:06,943 was based off of the land. 976 00:54:13,617 --> 00:54:16,586 All of us may not be free yet, 977 00:54:16,653 --> 00:54:18,788 but we can create freedom portals, 978 00:54:18,888 --> 00:54:23,326 and we can create these experiences of freedom. 979 00:54:29,232 --> 00:54:31,668 - And we're talking about Black futures. 980 00:54:31,768 --> 00:54:35,005 You can't get to a Black future without Black dreaming. 981 00:54:37,274 --> 00:54:39,075 - Well, you know, the title of the series 982 00:54:39,142 --> 00:54:40,477 is "Eyes on the Prize," and-- 983 00:54:40,577 --> 00:54:42,078 - And the prize remains elusive, 984 00:54:42,145 --> 00:54:43,613 the prize being freedom. 985 00:54:43,680 --> 00:54:47,951 - I think the prize remains well-defined 986 00:54:48,018 --> 00:54:50,487 for many Americans, many Black Americans, 987 00:54:50,587 --> 00:54:53,490 many women, many people out of the mainstream. 988 00:54:53,590 --> 00:54:55,625 The prize still remains elusive. 989 00:54:55,692 --> 00:54:57,093 But I think that those of us 990 00:54:57,160 --> 00:54:59,796 who came out of that experience 991 00:54:59,863 --> 00:55:03,600 continue to try and focus on those areas 992 00:55:03,667 --> 00:55:06,503 where total dream of the movement 993 00:55:06,603 --> 00:55:08,471 hasn't been realized. 994 00:55:10,206 --> 00:55:13,009 - If I had a legacy to leave, 995 00:55:13,109 --> 00:55:15,679 there's very little else I could ask of it, 996 00:55:15,779 --> 00:55:18,181 but, of course, I will, 997 00:55:18,281 --> 00:55:20,617 that maybe those countries that haven't seen it will 998 00:55:20,684 --> 00:55:24,621 and maybe it'll be there for generations yet born. 999 00:55:24,688 --> 00:55:26,523 - And then I'm gonna do my last one. 1000 00:55:26,623 --> 00:55:29,459 I want to know what the prize is. 1001 00:55:29,526 --> 00:55:31,061 - Hm. - You know? 1002 00:55:31,161 --> 00:55:32,662 What does that mean to you? 1003 00:55:32,729 --> 00:55:35,532 What is the prize that your eyes are on? 1004 00:55:35,632 --> 00:55:37,967 - Hmm. Wow. 1005 00:55:40,236 --> 00:55:42,672 Ooh, ain't that a question, huh? 1006 00:55:46,309 --> 00:55:48,411 - Mary Hooks says that the mandate 1007 00:55:48,511 --> 00:55:52,916 for Black people in this time is to honor our ancestors, 1008 00:55:53,016 --> 00:55:55,018 earn the respect of future generations, 1009 00:55:55,085 --> 00:55:56,853 and to be willing to be transformed 1010 00:55:56,920 --> 00:55:58,755 in the service of the work. 1011 00:55:58,855 --> 00:56:02,759 That willingness and that transformation 1012 00:56:02,859 --> 00:56:05,395 is the prize. 1013 00:56:05,495 --> 00:56:08,164 - I don't think I've ever really sat down 1014 00:56:08,231 --> 00:56:10,767 and thought what does a world without me, 1015 00:56:10,867 --> 00:56:13,570 like, having to fight for something look like. 1016 00:56:13,670 --> 00:56:16,439 I don't think we've ever historically 1017 00:56:16,539 --> 00:56:19,242 have had just, like, a moment of rest. 1018 00:56:26,516 --> 00:56:28,718 - The prize for me is that folks 1019 00:56:28,785 --> 00:56:31,054 should have the fundamental necessities 1020 00:56:31,121 --> 00:56:33,289 of what it means to be a human being, 1021 00:56:33,390 --> 00:56:35,759 that folks can live into their dreams. 1022 00:56:45,068 --> 00:56:47,370 - Most people would say the prize is freedom. 1023 00:56:47,437 --> 00:56:50,106 And I think we define freedom in different ways, 1024 00:56:50,206 --> 00:56:52,475 and think about freedom in different ways, 1025 00:56:52,575 --> 00:56:55,478 but, you know, prize is always our liberation. 1026 00:56:57,547 --> 00:56:59,916 - Just an equitable society that yields 1027 00:56:59,983 --> 00:57:03,653 dignity, safety, and access for all of us. 1028 00:57:03,753 --> 00:57:06,456 - The prize is abolition. 1029 00:57:06,556 --> 00:57:09,259 The prize is our ability 1030 00:57:09,325 --> 00:57:12,429 to determine our own destinies. 1031 00:57:14,230 --> 00:57:16,900 - The prize is we win. 1032 00:57:16,966 --> 00:57:19,135 And I know you want to ask, "What is winning?" 1033 00:57:19,235 --> 00:57:21,304 You know, what is the victory? 1034 00:57:23,139 --> 00:57:25,108 I think it's just hundreds of thousands 1035 00:57:25,175 --> 00:57:28,311 if not millions of people who are completely transformed 1036 00:57:28,411 --> 00:57:32,916 and know who they are, know whose they are. 1037 00:57:32,982 --> 00:57:34,784 They love each other. 1038 00:57:34,851 --> 00:57:38,288 They feel powerful in the presence of one another. 1039 00:57:41,991 --> 00:57:44,527 - Self-determination... 1040 00:57:44,627 --> 00:57:48,097 it's...it's... 1041 00:57:50,166 --> 00:57:51,334 Creation. 1042 00:57:51,434 --> 00:57:53,369 It's becoming all over again. 1043 00:57:56,973 --> 00:58:00,677 It's taking everything that has happened 1044 00:58:00,777 --> 00:58:06,115 and remaking the world in a new way. 1045 00:58:06,182 --> 00:58:10,353 It's Black children 1046 00:58:10,453 --> 00:58:14,791 that imagine futures 1047 00:58:14,858 --> 00:58:17,293 that I can't conceive of yet. 1048 00:58:29,672 --> 00:58:31,808 - Any and every part of my journey 1049 00:58:31,875 --> 00:58:34,711 has had ancestral guidance. 1050 00:58:58,768 --> 00:59:00,236 - Come on, now, rock with me.