Brooklyn's JACK launches Forward Ferguson series

Wildcat! dance collective
(photo: Eleni Zaharopoulos)

Brooklyn performance venue JACK presents Forward Ferguson, a new series "dedicated to furthering the conversation around racial justice in America, featuring dance, music, theater and performance art."

Highlights include a discussion on community-police relationships; work by Social Health Performance Club; the dance collective Wildcat!; a Freedom Songs Festival; readings of Black-authored anti-lynching plays of the early 1900s, performances by our resident youth theater company Truthworker, and a partnership with the activist group Equality for Flatbush.

Events begin January 16 and run through June. For a complete schedule and descriptions, click here.

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#BlackLivesMatter

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(c)2014, Eva Yaa Asantewaa