FRC - S1E4: Roumain and Joseph's We Shall Not Be Moved

Learn more about Daniel Bernard Roumain and Marc Bamuthi Joseph's opera We Shall Not Be Moved and contextual historical elements pivotal to the opera: the 1985 police bombing of MOVE headquarters and the 2011 Pennsylvania education budget crisis which saw the closing of 24 schools within the School District of Philadelphia. Interviews include Philadelphia resident in 1985 Eric Owens, former SDP Principal Otis Hackney, arts administrators and creators Valerie Gay and Nina Ball, countertenor John Holiday, and the composer and librettist - Daniel Bernard Roumain and Marc Bamuthi Joseph. Mike Bolton hosts. To learn more about Mike, visit michaeljbolton.com.

Video of Osage Avenue in 2015, the site of the 1985 police bombing can be seen at https://youtu.be/QOANsBbkbpA.

News coverage from 1985 can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X03ErYGB4Kk.

The Philadelphia Inquirer archive about the bombing is located here: https://www.inquirer.com/move-bombing.

The final project of the Hip H'opera program, a series of Oral History videos from those impacted by the themes in We Shall Not Be Moved called The Un/Sung Stories of We Shall Not Be Moved: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpbhbGwbWvNLbpl50NUkvISzeE7sZQG6L