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Producer/Director Adam Zucker, and his documentary film, “Greensboro: Closer to the Truth,” were a highlight of the 2008 Columbus Jewish Film Festival. The film followed survivors of the Greensboro Massacre of 1979. The clash, between members of the Communist Workers Party and the Klu Klux Klan, left five people dead and 11 injured. Though it was captured by four local news camera crews and two police officers were present, the Klanmen and Nazis charged, were acquitted of murder by all-white juries. Twenty-five years later, Zucker’s film, reconnects with the players in this tragedy. Beautiful and haunting, the film delivered a message of hope and healing.
I wanted to speak with Zucker in advance of the screening, so I couldn’t do the interview in person. I put my home phone on speaker and recorded our conversation with my Sony Clie.
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MUSIC + ART
IsaIsaac Simpson is a three-time Gospel Music Academy Winner! I wrote two stories about the artist and his group, Divine Providence, who were just on the verge of national stardom after winning the 2006 Artist Vocal Group - Overall Grand Prize and the Urban Gospel Award at the GMA Academy Artist & Song National Competition.
I was right there for their LIVE DVD recording “Right Now,” - which was at All Nations Church in Columbus, Ohio!
He came by my office in 2006 to talk about his experience at GMA, being newly signed to Alliant Music Group and his miraculous recovery from the gunshot wound that nearly took his life.
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By 2007, I had started Podcasting on iWeb. This was my first ArtCast, which was an Arts Podcast covering Central Ohio.
It features Mark Holbrook and William Mahon of the Ohio Historical Society on their "Sports" exhibtion.
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