Baltimore Girl Chronicles Grandparents’ Silent Civil Rights Protest In New Documentary “Everybody However Two” | Information

FREDERICK, Md., February 2, 2021 / PRNewswire-PRWeb / – Visual artist and Baltimore indigenous Carla Brown is busy these days putting the finishing touches to her documentary homage to her grandparents Frances and Benjamin Graham.

What helps inspire her as she struggles is the image of Jennifer Lopez “This country is your country” at the dedication ceremony in Biden, which Brown says perfectly captures the message her grandparents tried to send consistently to African Americans The United States by traveling the country in their trusted RV, often to places in the US where African Americans had never been seen before.

Brown says that during their annual trips, her grandparents saw themselves as ambassadors for the African American community for people who had never met blacks before.

Brown says: “I see my documentary ‘Everyone But Two’ as a call to the African American community to put aside reservations about going anywhere The United States where they don’t see anyone like themselves and realize that they belong in these rooms too. After seeing ‘Everyone But Two’ I would love it if someone walks away and says I want to visit this place without reservation. “

WHAT:

* The documentary “Everyone But Two”, which is currently in the final stages of production, tells the personal story of the filmmaker Carla Browns African American grandparents – Frances and Benjamin Graham– Who started a 35-year journey around the 48 continents United States in their RV in the same week that Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act

* Brown believes that her grandparents were civil rights pioneers themselves, making their journey through America their silent declaration for them

* Brown says that given the current climate, she believes this is very important for people in The United States To see people who don’t look like them – and to realize that what they have seen so far about the media are stereotypes that lead them to believe that blacks are just murdering or selling drugs.

* *Benjamin Graham is still alive at the age of 94 – and the one-off postman who has integrated a neighborhood Baltimore in his role as a postman – still lives in this city. He kept a meticulous, handwritten log of his annual RV trips until they ended in 2003. Frances Graham died in 2016.

* The Grahams were guided on their annual travels by “The Green Book,” the subject of the recently Oscar-winning film, as written by a postman Benjamin Grahamwho detailed “safe” restaurants to eat and hotels to linger in for people of color, who helped the Grahams to ensure safe passage The United States.

* Brown, who accompanied her grandparents on some of their annual trips, said she learned from the trailer what it means to be black in America.

* In certain parts of The United States Her grandparents were the first African Americans residents had ever seen. Benjamin Graham I felt that once the initially curious people met her and visited her in her trailer – where Brown’s grandmother Frances paid special attention to her curtains and doilies – a warm, warm feeling would replace the initial curiosity.

Brown says her grandparents’ general feeling was that The United States was just as much their country as that of others and that they had the right to see and enjoy it.

Click here to see Carla talk about her grandparents’ trip across the county and visit everybuttwo.com for more information.

Set up an interview with Carla Brown, Contact: Russ Hodge, 3 Roads Communications, [email protected], (301) 662-4121

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SOURCE 3 Street Communication