Actress Amanda Enzo on Fighting for #BLM with Love & Education
Actress and HB Student Amanda Enzo on the importance of authentic artistry and theatre, the need to hold the theatre world accountable, and fighting for Black lives with love, justice and education.
This video is part of HB Studio's #HBConnects series, featuring the many voices of HB – alumni, faculty, students, friends and colleagues.
We choose and celebrate a theater that belongs to all of us; that can give voice to grief and just anger; that serves its community with humility and curiosity as a force for social justice, for civic dialog, for the safe and uncensored expression of conflict and difference; for healing. Let us use the tools we have to restore faith and foster understanding, not to promote false positions and systemic inequities.
Stay Observant, Stay Informed. #HBRecommends from Amanda Enzo:
*Voices of a People's History of the United States (book by Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove)
*Black Women's Representation in Classic Hollywood Cinema, a presentation by Amanda Enzo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lCso3JdzEY&feature=youtu.be
*The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (documentary film, 2015)
*A Huey P. Newton Story (film by Spike Lee, 2001)
*Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration-and How to Achieve Real Reform (book by John Pfaff)
*Time: The Kalief Browder Story (documentary film, 2017)
*When They See Us (TV Show, 2019)
*The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (book by Rebecca Skloot; film, 2017)
*American Son (film, 2019)
*The Birth of Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of Stephen Foster (article by Rhae Lynn Barnes: https://ushistoryscene.com/article/birth-of-blackface/)
*Malcolm X (film, 1992)
*Who Killed Malcom X? (documentary film, 2020)
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