RITES OF PASSAGE

Filmmaker: Azariah Jones

7 minutes

Through an unpacking of lived experience and archival documents, this film explores how absence, and conversely, presence, can decide the version of a history we remember and call our own. Focusing on the Mercer Street Friends Center (MSFC), two points of view narrate this unveiling: that of Emerson Simmons, community organizer and former high school counselor, and Lloyd Johnson, an early organizer at the MSFC.