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“Now her soul will be at peace, and truly free to travel on home.” View Our Streaming Video Purchase the NEW 3-DVD Boxed-Set of the Television Special Learn About the Radio Series Purchase the 14 CD Boxed-Set of the Radio Series Press Release: January 3, 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
3 January 2010
EVT EDUCATIONAL PRODUCTIONS, INC. CELEBRATES 400 YEARS OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN CONTRIBUTIONS WITH THE NEW ENHANCED DVD EDITIONS OF “THEN I’LL BE FREE TO TRAVEL HOME” As we begin the second decade of the 21st century EVT Educational Productions, Inc is pleased to make the enhanced DVDs of its seminal 2-Part documentary “Then I’ll Be Free To Travel Home” available for on-line purchase. Thanks to the Tribeca Reframe Project and its mission to make classic and hard to find content accessible to a wider audience, these DVDs are now available for purchase on Amazon.com. The fact that Executive Producer/Director Eric V. Tait, Jr. is also celebrating his 40th year as a broadcast journalist and documentarian makes the rollout of these DVDs all the more timely. Inspired by the 1991 re-discovery of the Colonial African Burial Ground in lower Manhattan, “Then I’ll Be Free To Travel Home” is hosted by the legendary Miss Lena Horne. Her daughter, author Gail Lumet Buckley is Narrator. Part 1 chronicles the history and legacy of those early Africans who founded the burial ground and whose struggles and contributions significantly helped make this country what it is today. Part 2 reveals the battle waged by a coalition of all races, colors and creeds to save, preserve, and memorialize what’s been called “the greatest archaeological discovery of the 20th century.” It was a 13-year David/Goliath struggle of community activists against the might of the Federal Government’s General Services Administration (GSA). Instead of just the usual professional Actors to recreate the voices and lives of those early Africans, Producer/Director Eric V. Tait, Jr. enlisted such modern Clergy/Community Activists as Reverend Johnny Ray Youngblood, and Journalists Earl Caldwell, Connie Aitcheson and others. In doing so, Tait has achieved a remarkable sense of cultural authenticity and connectedness. The Elmendorf Reformed Church, the oldest church in the Village of Harlem celebrates its 350th anniversary in 2010. It is now actively attempting to reclaim, restore and memorialize its very own 340-year old Colonial Harlem African Burial Ground. The release of a documentary about those original Africans and their struggle for freedom and first class citizenship in North America is more than fortuitous, it’s a fitting reminder of what to do and what NOT to do in striving to preserve and honor our rich, diverse, cultural legacy the endangered Elmendorf Colonial Harlem African Burial Ground represents. Available on Amazon.com are the “Then I’ll Be Free To Travel Home" individual DVDs od Disc 1 (Part 1), Disc 2 (Part 2, with an enhanced feature Interview with Producer/Director Tait), and a Disc 3 (Promo Reel, also with the enhanced feature/Tait Interview), as well as a Combined 3-Disc DVD set. For more information on these new DVD Releases and the epic 13-part radio documentary series inspired by the Video Documentary, visit www.evted.org. Or call 212.281.2456.
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