Genius Child

works, writings and musings of Bree Newsome

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Spoke on panel at Nubian Rootz community Kwanzaa celebration in Charlotte 12/26/16. Today's Kwanzaa principle is Ujima: collective work & responsibility ✊🏾❤️

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Merry Christmas, everyone! 🎄👋🏾😊❤️

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Final speaking engagement of 2016 at University of Kentucky. It's been an incredible year of traveling the country and speaking to various communities on the history and ongoing struggle for Black liberation in America. #Blessings

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Chief Putney of CMPD cancels community meeting in Charlotte, refuses to face questions from public. #CharlotteUprising

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TODAY MARSHALL PARK 1PM #CharlotteUprising ✊🏿✊🏽CharlotteUprising.com/petition✊🏾✊🏼

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Will the Panthers #KneelForCharlotte? That's a powerful way players can show support for the communities hurting this week. #KeepPounding #KneelForJustice #CharlotteUprising #CharlotteProtest

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#CharlotteUprising #charlotte #charlotteprotest

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#CharlotteProtest #CharlotteUprising

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Protest march pauses at prison to shout "we see you, we love you" to those incarcerated #CharlotteUprising #CharlotteProtest

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National guard posted at Bank of America because NC values property & money over the lives of people. In Baltimore they guarded the harbor #CharlotteProtest #CharlotteUprising

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At dress rehearsal for ➡️Monticello.org/neh⬅️ Livestream starts 9/17 10am. Performance at 11am

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At dress rehearsal for ➡️Monticello.org/neh⬅️ Livestream starts 9/17 10am. Performance at 11am

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At dress rehearsal for ➡️Monticello.org/neh⬅️ Livestream starts 9/17 10am. Performance at 11am

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Visiting the African-American burial ground at Monticello plantation and discussing the legacy of slavery today including mass incarceration.

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After rehearsal ends, dancers and I visit Monticello, the plantation owned by Thomas Jefferson, to learn more about the lives of those enslaved there.

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Feels good to be in producer/director mode again, collaborating with Joyemovement choreographer Alexandra Warren from Greensboro, NC. 😊

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➡️️Monticello.org/neh⬅️ First day of dance rehearsal with Joyemovement dance company. We're collaborating for part 1 of my piece "Declaring Freedom to the Four Winds" which begins at ➡️Monticello.org/neh⬅️ Performance will be livestreamed at above link this Saturday 9/17 10a-12:30p