For Immediate Release: Tuesday, July 20
JOIN AGENTS OF CHANGE HIGHLIGHTS HARRY EDWARDS IN ONLINE EXHIBITION SERIES
JOIN Agents of Change is an online exhibition series that is inspired by the documentary film, AGENTS OF CHANGE, which is currently in post-production. This exhibition will also exist as an online social media and web platform, highlighting various activists, leaders, and agents of change from the film who continue to fight for civil rights and social justice in America. The alarming shameful events in Charleston, South Carolina, ongoing demonstrations in Ferguson, Missouri, and nationwide student-led protest movements, such as the I, Too, Am Harvard, (UCLA, Michigan, NYU, etc.) campaigns, lay bare "the racial tensions on campuses today, raising questions about inclusiveness, identity and racial stereotyping", according to the Boston Globe. AGENTS OF CHANGE links the past to the present and the present to the past--making it not just a movie but a movement.
Among the many activists, humanitarians, historians and leaders featured in the film, the producers recognize Harry Edwards as part of the JOIN Agents of Change online exhibition series. Educator, athlete and sports mentor Harry Edwards has a long and storied history of activism focused upon developments at the interface of sport, race, and society. Edwards has been a pioneering scholar in the founding of the sociology of sport as an academic discipline and has served as a consultant to Major League Baseball, the San Francisco 49'ers and the Golden State Warriors. He is Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley,has received dozens of awards and honors, including several honorary doctorate degrees and has been honored by the University of Texas which has established the “Dr. Harry Edwards Lectures."
"I have long understood that the challenges to achieving America - to creating and realizing the promise of that more perfect Union- are diverse and dynamic; that our struggle must be multi-faceted and perpetual. There are no final victories and can be no final defeats. The only imperative is that each individual and each generation fight the battles of their era with vision, courage and commitment, always being mindful of the fact that if we can stand taller, see clearer and farther, and reach higher, it is because we stand on the shoulders of giants who passed this way before us and dared to be Agents of Change." - Dr.Harry Edwards
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is more than a movie, it's a movement.
From the well-publicized events at San Francisco State in 1968 to the image of black students with guns emerging from the takeover of the student union at Cornell University in April, 1969, the struggle for a more relevant and meaningful education, including demands for black and ethnic studies programs, became a clarion call across the country in the late 1960's.
Through the stories of these young men and women who were at the forefront of these efforts, Agents of Change examines the untold story of the racial conditions on college campuses and in the country that led to these protests. The film’s characters found themselves at the crossroads of the civil rights, black power, and anti-Vietnam war movements at a pivotal time in America’s history.