Directed by Kevin Jerome Everson and Claudrena N. Harold • 2014 • United States
Starring Erin Stewart, Vivian Gordon
SUGARCOATED ARSENIC is a cinematic exploration of African American intellectual, social, and political life at the University of Virginia during the 1970s. Starring Erin Stewart as Vivian Gordon (the director of UVA’s Black Studies program between 1975 and 1980), the film tells the story of the Black women and men who, through their public and private gestures, sought to create a community that thrived on intellectual exchange, self-critique, and human warmth.
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We Demand
Directed by Kevin Jerome Everson and Claudrena N. Harold • 2016 • United States
Starring Ricky Goldman, Richard Warner, Ryan LeachWE DEMAND tells the story of the anti–Vietnam War movement from the perspective of James R. Roebuck, a Northern-born African American man who studied at the Universi...
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How Can I Ever Be Late
Directed by Kevin Jerome Everson and Claudrena N. Harold • 2017 • United States
Kevin Jerome Everson and Claudrena Harold imagine a group of African American students from the University of Virginia greeting Sly and the Family Stone at the Charlottesville airport in 1973.
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Fastest Man in the State
Directed by Kevin Jerome Everson and Claudrena N. Harold • 2017 • United States
Starring Kent MerrittKent Merritt waxes poetic about being one of the first four Black scholarship athletes at the University of Virginia.
