Amy Leon's 'Burning in Birmingham' Video Reimagines 1963 Birmingham Church Bombing

Spoken word artist, musician and educator Amy Leon's "Burning in Birmingham" video reimagines the 1963 Birmingham Church bombing that killed Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson and Carol Denise McNair and shifted the Civil Rights Movement into full throttle. Check it out below!

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From AFROPUNK, where the video premiered: "The Brooklyn-based singer's performance utterly radiates with blistering emotional honesty, rage, and frustration over the historical and institutional abuse of black people in America. 'Burning in Birmingham' is a song of protest and reckoning, looking at the cyclical nature of racism in America. This piece was written for an event where I was asked to perform alongside a conversation with Sabryna Fulton, Trayvon Martin's mother, discussing police brutality in America and the rise of necessary action,' León tells AFROPUNK."

Video and song credits:

Lyrics by Amy Leon
Music by Chris Gaskell, Mike Haldeman,
Seth Kaplan, Amy Leon, Jake Pinto, Dillon Treacy
Recorded & Engineered by Alex Pyle
Mastered by Lucas Hanson

Directed by Tyler Rabinowitz - https://vimeo.com/tylerrabinowitz
Cinematography by Oren Soffer - http://www.orensoffer.com/
Edited by Zach Terry: https://vimeo.com/user11967867
Colorist: Nick Metcalf at The Mill - http://www.themill.com/portfolio/filt...
Choreography by Mark Travis Rivera - https://marktravisrivera.com/

Starring:
Dominique Fishback
Zuri Ford
Anise S. Hines
Amy León
Kirsten Gianna Webb

Buy the song here.

Amy Leon is a musician, poet, and educator. She performs frequently all over New York and has toured numerous times across the UK performing in collaboration with the likes of the BBC, Roundhouse, Amnesty International and more. An alumna of the Nuyorican Slam Team, she fuses music and poetry through powerfully transparent performances focusing on social inequalities and celebrating love, blackness, and what it means to be woman. She is the author of two collections of poetry: the water under the bridge and Mouth Full of Concrete. ? Her debut album Something Melancholy will be released Fall 2016.

Follow Amy online:
http://amyleon.com/
https://www.facebook.com/amyspoetree
https://www.instagram.com/amylion101/
https://soundcloud.com/amyleon3
https://twitter.com/amydelilahleon

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