When a Black man is viciously assaulted by a police officer right outside their window, all of the guests at a dinner party seem to consider the attack unremarkable, except for one.

AN UNINVITED GUEST

When a police officer viciously assaults a Black man right outside their window, guests at a dinner party, save one, seem to consider the attack unremarkable.

An Uninvited Guest Filmmaker Comment

On July 13, 1885, Howard Cooper, a fifteen year-old black boy, was lynched by a white mob in Towson, Maryland. Cooper was accused of attacking a young woman as she walked home from a train station. An all-white jury found Cooper guilty of assault and rape, even though the victim did not testify she was raped. The jury never left the courtroom, reaching its verdict in less than a minute. The rape conviction triggered the death penalty. Claiming his 14th Amendment rights were violated because blacks were excluded from the jury, Cooper’s attorneys planned to file an appeal to the US Supreme Court. However, the night before the appeal was to be filed, an enraged mob stormed the jail just after midnight, dragged Cooper from his cell and hanged from a nearby sycamore tree. (It was reported by the local press that the mob waited until after midnight because they didn’t want to lynch a man on a Sunday.) “Outrage in Rockland” tells Cooper’s story using interviews, newspaper accounts and animation layered over shots of the actual sites where his tragic story played out. This was one of 42 known racial terror lynchings in Maryland

Outrage in Rockland: The Lynching of Howard Cooper

In 1885, Howard Cooper, a fifteen year-old boy, was lynched by a mob in Towson, Maryland after being accused of attacking a young woman as she walked home.

Outrage Filmmaker Comment

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Historically Black College and University students explore the question of Confederate monuments as heritage or hatred in America. Virginia’s contentious history, and the controversies surrounding the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, gained national attention after the Unite the Right Rally in 2017, which resulted in the tragic death of Heather Heyer. HBCU Storytellers highlights community interviews with diverse Virginians. Including these stakeholders in this debate are high school student leader Zyhanna Bryant, and Dr. Wes Bellamy, the Vice Mayor of Charlottesville who led the charge to remove the Lee statue. Confederate Monuments- Heritage or Hatred? is part three of four HBCU Storytellers short film project, 400 Years Later…’free-ish’, that explores the commemoration of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in Virginia in late August 1619. The films capture this epic milestone through the journey of fifteen HBCU students as they explore past and present race relations in the birthplace of American slavery. The documentaries follow the students in their efforts to promote racial healing and reconciliation as they grapple with Virginia’s contentious history and the racial issues these monuments present. Heritage or Hatred? had its world premiere in the official selection of 2020 Pan African Film Festival. This film is made possible by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the Nate Parker Foundation.

HBCU Storytellers: Confederate Monuments – Heritage or Hatred?

Historically Black College and University students explore the question of Confederate monuments as heritage or hatred in America.

Shaw Rising tells the story of the oldest Historically Black College in the South. During Reconstruction, Shaw trained America’s first class of Black lawyers and doctors. And in 1960, Shaw University was the birthplace of SNCC, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. SNCC organized lunch counter sit-ins, voter registration and the March on Washington. Today, Shaw confronts new challenges to its mission and its very existence.

Shaw Rising

The story of the oldest Historically Black College in the South. From training America’s first Black doctors to the creation of SNCC, Shaw has been at the center of U.S. history.

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