Audio dramas are the perfect companion for sewing! Lisa can't watch TV and sew as she needs to concentrate on what she's doing. Today, the Stitch Please podcast is sharing one of our favorite audio dramas: 1972 - The Chisholm Campaign Trail and the Davis Trial an amazing podcast by Yhane Washington Smith. Listen in to the first episode with us, then make sure you go and check out the full series!
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This episode dramatizes the events on August 7, 1970. On that day, 17 year old, Jonathan Jackson was murdered and the guns Jackson used sent Angela Davis to jail and had her on trial.
WARNING:
This episode depicts the actual events of police brutality.
HUGE SHOUTS OF THANKS and APPRECIATION! Too many roles to list so in alphabetical order.
Chloe
Gabrielle Adkins as Margaret Burnham
Julie Atwell
Eli Barraza
Ian Bell
Jeanette Berry
Alan Bourke
Cole Burkhardt
Jordan Cobb as Charlene Mitchell
Alexander Danner as McGovern
TK Dutes
Ebonie Ellington as Shirley Chisholm
Em Ervolina
Jeffrey Nills Gardner
Morgan Givens as Howard Moore
D. Rubin Green as Congressman
Brandon G. Green as Leo Branton
Evan Gulock as James
Jordan Higgs
Sean Howard as NYC Mayor Lindsay
Eleanor Hyde
Steven Hylton as Wesley
Peter Killy
Victoria Leigh
Eli Hamada McIlveen
Jimmy Mehiel as President Richard Nixon
Isaiah Mueller as McClain and Conrad Chisholm
Michael Molina Minard
Morris Neopolitano
Bayo Olukotun
Serena Rahhal
Bob Raymonda
Shawn Regruto
Jared Roberts
Joshua Rubino as Edgar Hoover
John Sebastian La Valle as Harris
Danielle Shemaiah
Michael Sinclair as George Jackson
Jac'leen Smith as Angela Davis
Emilio Smith
Nina Smith
Tom Smith
Jordan Stillman as Rose Mary Woods
Jeff Van Dreason as Judge Arnason
Violet Tallis
Chi Williams
Ronald Young, Jr.
Tau Zaman
Sound Design by Xperience J.
Editor, Producer, Recording Engineer - T.H. Ponders
Art by Neville Harvey
Written and directed by Yhane Washington Smith
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Lisa Woolfork is an associate professor of English specializing in African American literature and culture. Her teaching and research explore Black women writers, Black identity, trauma theory, and American slavery. She is the founder of Black Women Stitch, the sewing group where Black lives matter. She is also the host/producer of Stitch Please, a weekly audio podcast that centers on Black women, girls, and femmes in sewing. In the summer of 2017, she actively resisted the white supremacist marches in her community, Charlottesville, Virginia. The city became a symbol of lethal resurging white supremacist violence. She remains active in a variety of university and community initiatives, including the Community Engaged Scholars program. She believes in the power of creative liberation.
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