Black History Month Production 2023
RBG BHM Program Script
2023
- Kendra Landers: “Listen, Lord, A Prayer” by James Weldon Johnson’s God’s Trombones
- LaQuita Middleton: Singing “Lift Every Voice and Sing” by James Weldon Johnson
- Vashon Christian: Original Poem, “Kidnapped”
- Vashon Christian: Original Poem, “Can You Imagine?”
- Ebony tha Goddess: Original Poem, “Going Home”
- LaQuita Middleton: Original Monologue, “Slave w/ Baby”
- LaQuita Middleton sings Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit”
- Vashon Christian: Original Poem, “Lynch Legacy”
- Joy White: Excerpt from “Break Every Yoke and Let The Oppressed Go Free” (1858) by Mary Ann Shadd
- Tamara Warner: Mother to Son by Langston Hughes
- LaQuita Middleton: Original Poem, “Wade in the Water”
- Tamara Warner: “Baptized in Dirty Water” by LaQuita Middleton
- LaQuita Middleton: Original Monologue, “Ms. Melba Sue Talks Racism”
- Kendra Landers and Tamara Warner: “What about the Children?” by LaQuita MIddleton
- Tamara Warner: “What Shall I Tell My Children Who Are Black? (Reflections of an African American Mother)” by Margaret Taylor Burroughs (1963)
- Jacynda Williams: Original Poem, My Color is Not My Crime: My Black is Beautiful
- Teresa V. Garrett: Original Poem, "The Return of Maya Angelou"
- Tamara Warner: “Alabama Centennial” by Naomi Long Madgett
- Joy White: Shirley Chisholm, Acceptance Speech, delivered January 25th, 1972
- Jacynda Williams: “Lord, Why Did You Make Me Black?” by RuNett Ni Ebo
- Nita L. Chase: Equality Ain’t Equal (Prompt from LaQuita Middleton)
- LaQuita Middleton: Original Poem, “Black Lives Matter”
- Teresa V. Garrett: Original Poem, “Racism Doesn't Exist”
- Author Kendra Landers: Poem by Kayla Landers “To My Unborn Black Child”
- Ebony tha Goddess: Original Piece, “Nigcentric”
- LaQuita Middleton: Original Poem, “I Called in Black Today”
- Ebony tha Goddess: Original Poem, Alkebulan
- Author Kendra Landers: Original Poem, “I Am America”
- Joy White: Excerpt from “Rashema Melson’s High School Valedictorian Speech
- Ebony tha Goddess: Original Poem, “Nina”
- Nita L. Chase: Original Poem, “NEW BLACK”
- LaQuita Middleton: Original Poem, “When They Come for Us”
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2022
Tamara Warner - “Listen, Lord, A Prayer” - James Weldon Johnson
Rashad Harrington - “Lift Every Voice and Sing” - James Weldon Johnson
Red
Kenya Stewart - “lynching witness” by LaQuita Middleton
Ebony tha Goddess - “Strange Fruit” by Abel Meeropol sang by Billie Holiday
Erica Starkey - Slave w/ Baby Monologue by LaQuita Middleton
Kenya Stewart - “For Black Women Who Experienced Genocide When the Police Murders of Their Sons Was Too Much” by Keith Wallace
Tamara Warner - “American Dream” by LaQuita Middleton
Beautiful Butterfly - “Scared to Live, Afraid to Die”
Stevie Maya -
Rashad Harrington - “Precious Lord”
Black
S’rReal - BLM
Shining Poetess f. Aquil - “Sundown Towns”
Larie Edwards - Average Brother (song)
Aquil Ali f. Shining Poetess - “Heavenly Words of Emmett Till”
Cheryl Terry - “Ms. Melba Sue Talks Racism”
Erica Starkey - The Ballad of Birmingham
Nita L. Chase - “Carole Robertson Tribute”
Sue Lichtenfels - What About the Children?
J Kemet - Mother of Three Sons - (about her sons)
Kimberly Manning - The Big Chop
Ebony tha Goddess - The Black We Wear
Shining Poetess - “Dedication to Karen Circle”
Ricki Connor - Excerpt from Malcolm X’s “Message to the Grassroots”
Quincy Keith - “We’re Still Your Kinfolk”
Isaiah - Black Man Part I: Black is Bold
S’rReal - Black Power
Green
Cheryl Terry - “How I Got Over”
Angel Kim - “The Cost of Freedom”
Charente Carr - “Still We Rise in Unity”
Stevie Maya - “In This Silence”
Angel Kim “Stop It”
Rashad Harrington - “Brown Skin/You Send Me”
Kenya Stewart & S’rReaL - “Divine Arrival”
Dope Female - “A Mother’s Love”
Charente Carr - “Light”… (work on the writing of it)
Tamara Warner f. LaQuita Middleton - “Alabama Centennial”
Aigne’ Goldsby - Empowerment Speech
Ebony tha Goddess - Liberation
Nita L. Chase - “I’m Exhaling for the Revival”
Tavetta Patterson - [Empowerment Speech]
Dope Female - “Today, I Break the Chains”
LaQuita Middleton - “When They Come for Us”
BLACK HISTORY MONTH AUDITION SIDES
Mother to Son, by Langston Hughes - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47559/mother-to-son
A Black Woman Speaks of White Womanhood, by Beah Richards - https://aaregistry.org/poem/a-black-woman-speaks-by-beah-richards/
What Shall I Tell My Children Who Are Black?, Margaret Taylor Burroughs - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/146263/what-shall-i-tell-my-children-who-are-black-reflections-of-an-african-american-mother
Two Guns in the Sky for Daniel Harris, by Raymond Antrobus - https://poems.poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/two-guns-in-the-sky-for-daniel-harris/
Trayvon, Redux, by Rita Dove - https://poets.org/poem/trayvon-redux
Let it Be Known, by Margaret Taylor Burroughs - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/146265/let-it-be-known
Let My People Go, by James Weldon Johnson - https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/let-my-people-go-0
The South, by Langston Hughes - https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/south-12
Alabama Centennial by Naomi Long Madgett - https://www.blueridgejournal.com/poems/nm-alabama.htm
Listen, Lord, A Prayer, by James Weldon Johnson - https://poets.org/poem/listen-lord-prayer
Go Down, Moses by James Weldon - https://poets.org/poem/go-down-death
Listen, Lord, A Prayer, by James Weldon Johnson - https://poets.org/poem/listen-lord-prayer
Black History Month 2022 Auditions
Audition Song Ideas
- Lift Every Voice & Sing (James Weldon Johnson)
- A Change is Gonna Come (Sam Cooke)
- How I Got Over (Mahalia Jackson, Aretha Franklin)
- Keep your Eyes on the Prize (Mavis Staples)
- Deep River (Old Hymn)
- Ain't Gon' Let Nobody (Turn Me 'Round)
- Glory (John Legend)
- This is America (Childish Gambino)
- Mercy, Mercy Me (Marvin Gaye)
- What's Going On (Marvin Gaye)
- and more!
At the Feet of the Masters
TOP: Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth
BOTTOM LEFT: Yolanda King (Dr. King's Eldest Daughter)
BOTTOM MIDDLE: Congressman John Lewis
BOTTOM RIGHT: Julian Bond
One of the great things about our founder is that not only did she earn a B.A. in Black Studies from Berea College, she learned hist-ory at the feet of the masters - those who lived it. This is the guid-ing force of this company!
She speaks from the same zeal & tenacity as those who endured the American Civil Rights Movement firsthand.
She always issues a charge for change.
| Freedom or else. |
Take advantage of our "A Footsoldier Speaks" program where you can book some of our living legends to speak to your group!
A FEW OF OUR PROJECTS:
PHOTO 1: LaQuita's delivering an embodiment of Sister Mamie Till Mobley;
PHOTO 2: LaQuita a civil rights tour in B'ham, AL.
Historical Embodiments
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Our civil rights department presents historical emobodiments of sung and unsung civil rights heroes.
We also present original historical plays that span 30 - 90 minutes, depending upon our clients' requests!
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Leading Civil Rights Tours
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Not only do we lead civil rights tours of historic cities & their CR attractions, we:
- Lead city-wide tours
- Train tour guides
- Compose training manuals
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