Red Summers VR x The Guardian
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Sound capture of Dr. Kidada Williams discussing East St Louis 1917: How white mobs firebombed homes and decimated a Black community in Illinois
Red Summers is a 360 video project by the artist and film-maker Bayeté Ross Smith on the untold American history of racial terrorism from 1917 to 1921. The project is funded by Black Public Media, Eyebeam, Sundance Institute, Crux XR and the Open Society Foundations.