Directed by Kevin Jerome Everson and Claudrena N. Harold • 2016 • United States
Starring Ricky Goldman, Richard Warner, Ryan Leach
WE 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 University of Virginia during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Over a ten-day period of unprecedented student upheaval at the University, Roebuck, the first Black president of UVA’s Student Council, confronted a series of political challenges and existential dilemmas. This budding activist and future congressman was the quintessential militant insider whose cool temperament and ideological flexibility prevailed just as it seemed the school was on the verge of imploding from within.
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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.
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Black Bus Stop
Directed by Kevin Jerome Everson and Claudrena N. Harold • 2019 • United States
Students reclaim a popular gathering spot on the campus of the University of Virginia.
