“Can’t Stop Cryin’ for America: Black Lives Matter!,” is a music work by composer Jon Jang in collaboration with poet performer Amanda Kemp.
The work will be organized into seven vignettes named after each black victim group killed by the police and/or white supremacists this past year: Eric Garner (New York), John Crawford III (Ohio), Michael Brown (Ferguson, Missouri), Tamir Rice (Ohio), Freddie Gray (Maryland), 6 black mothers & 3 black men (Charleston, South Carolina) and Sandra Bland (Texas), The final vignette, “Five Young Black Men,” will memorialize Emmett Till, Oscar Grant, Trayvon Martin, John Powell and Mario Woods.
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