WHEN: February 22, 2022 – 6:30PM EST
WHERE: Facebook Live
Join us for a virtual screening of our short film, “We Came & Stayed: Coyt Jones/Ras Baraka”.
Stories From the Global City, is a virtual screening series, brought to you by Newest Americans in partnership with NJPAC, The Newark Museum of Art, The Newark Public Library, Newark Symphony Hall, & NJ Symphony. Newest Americans is a multimedia collaboratory of journalists, media-makers, artists, faculty, and students housed at Rutgers University Newark.
We’re proud to screen the short film, We Came & Stayed, which is produced by Talking Eyes Media. This eight-minute documentary juxtaposes an interview with Newark Mayor Ras Baraka with sound bytes from an interview with the voice of his grandfather, Coyt Jones, who migrated to Newark in 1927. Jones had been interviewed for the Krueger Scott African American Oral History Collection, the largest archive documenting the journey of African Americans to the State of NJ during the Great Migration.
