THIS HAS BEEN A YEAR OF POWERFUL MOMENTS,
living historical moments, for the March on Washington Festival.
We were there at the White House for the designation of the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument. We witnessed Emmett’s first cousin, Reverend Wheeler Parker, in the oval office with President Biden and Vice President Harris, an overwhelming moment for the Reverend as he reflected on being the last remaining witness in the cabin with Emmett when he was abducted, to this moment in the White House, the nation marking Emmett’s experience to be preserved for the ages.
We were at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL on the 60th anniversary of the bombing, alongside Sarah Collins Rudolph, the 5th little girl who survived, as Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson reflected on the moment, and the importance of accurate education about our history.
 

The Festival launched the nation’s first ever public school curriculum for social justice filmmaking. What started as an idea from our (now) board member Joseph Olchefske, has become, under his leadership, a year-long curriculum for 200 high school students at three Los Angeles schools. The students are learning about narrative form, content, and actual filmmaking. With your help, Imagining Equity will expand to three cities and 1,000 kids in the next year, and over the next five years to be a course offered throughout the nation.

We were with Rev. Sharpton and the NAACP and the ADL, hosting dozens of  organizations as they prepared to mark the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington, and hearing Dr. King’s child and grandchild reflect on where we are today as a nation.

The Festival has achieved well beyond what those of us who helped found this platform could ever have imagined.

With your support, your stories, your ideas, and your partnership, this is 
only the beginning.