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Public Screening

October 31st, 2006 · 8 Comments

Alicia Sowisdral, a graduate student at UNCG is showing Greensboro’s Child on Friday, November 3, 2006, at the Curry Auditorium on UNCG’s campus at 7 PM. This is a free event and immediately afterwards we will hold an open discussion and a Q&A. Please come out for this showing if you have not yet seen […]

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Tags: 11/03/79 · 11/3/79 · Community · Curry Auditorium · Discussion · Greensboro Massacre · Q&A · Screenings · UNCG

Time is up…

August 2nd, 2006 · No Comments

OK… I’ve had a lot of time to think about what the next steps should be with this documentary. I’ve gotten incredible feedback from the viewers at the screenings in Greensboro. Should I submit it to more film festivals? What about distribution? How about making copies available for schools? All of those were great suggestions […]

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Tags: 11/03/79 · 11/3/79 · Andy Coon · Artistic Expression · Community · documentary · Greensboro Massacre · greensboros child · on line · thought

In Public Hands

June 8th, 2006 · 1 Comment

The Greensboro Public Library has acquired 8 copies of Greensboro’s Child. Below is a map of the local branches where you can pick up a copy. Head out and borrow a copy for free and come back here leave a review and let’s talk. It should be a week before it makes it into rotation.

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Tags: Community · documentary · DVD · Viewing

[Video] GTRC: The Report Is Complete

May 29th, 2006 · No Comments

On Friday May 26th, 2006 The GTRC held a public hearing to officially wrap up their two years-worth of research into the events surrounding the Greensboro Massacre. Unless you go through the evidence yourself and speak to both the survivors and citizens of Greensboro that lived through the experience of 11/3, you’ll never truly understand […]

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Tags: 11/03/79 · Community · Greensboro · Greensboro Massacre · GTRC · The GTRC · video

[Video] Andy Coon Q&A, 7pm Screening, 5/26/06

May 26th, 2006 · No Comments

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Tags: Andy Coon · Community · documentary · Greensboro · Greensboro Massacre · Screenings · The Scene on South Elm · video

The Truth And Reconciliation Commission Speaks

May 25th, 2006 · No Comments

The first paragraph of the Executive Summary: The Commission finds that on the morning of Nov. 3, 1979, members of the Klan/Nazi caravan headed for Greensboro with malicious intent. At a minimum, they planned to disrupt the parade and assault the demonstrators (by throwing eggs), violating the marchers constitutional rights to free speech and assembly. […]

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Tags: Andy Coon · Community · documentary · Greensboro · Greensboro Massacre · Screenings · The GTRC · The Scene on South Elm · video

[Video] Greensboro’s Child – The Opening

May 25th, 2006 · 1 Comment

A preview of the first couple of minutes of Greensboro’s Child. It’s hard to believe that I started this documentary back in ’97. I was an amateur, in college, holding a mic and pointing a camera at an interviewee, with a light kit set up in no particular order and no clue as to the […]

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Tags: Andy Coon · Community · documentary · excerpt · Greensboro Massacre · GTRC · Kwame Cannon · Screenings · The GTRC · video · Willena Cannon

[Video] Death To The Klan, 11/3/79 Footage

May 21st, 2006 · 10 Comments

This is footage of the November 3rd, 1979 anti-Klan rally held in Greensboro, NC named, Death to The Klan. The organization that promoted and held the rally was named the Communist Workers Party (CWP). The people slowly rolling up in the cars are with KKK and Nazi groups from around NC, looking to confront the […]

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Tags: 11/03/79 · 11/3/79 · Community · Death to the Klan · Greensboro · Greensboro Massacre · GTRC · KKK · Mourningside Homes · murder · Nazi · video

The GRTC: Taking Flak In The Homestretch

May 21st, 2006 · 16 Comments

With less than a week to go before releasing their findings, The Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission is catching some more heat for their methodology… I think. Margaret Moffett Banks, News & Record TRC mum on report “Private meetings. Undisclosed sources. “No comments” to the media. The group investigating the 1979 Klan-Nazi shootings has cloaked […]

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