WORLD Channel

- Testing, testing.

One, two, one, two.

How we doing?

- Five.

(audience cheers and applauds) - I'm so excited.

- Four.

(audience cheers and applauds) (person groans) Three, two.

- [Person] Appreciate you.

- One.

So there I am.

- This feels like the moment my life is going to begin.

(upbeat music) - On Saturdays, we would get a bunch of drummers and start hitting.

It's too loud.

It ain't been loud for 20 years.

Now y'all talking about it's loud.

(upbeat music) - [Person] I was the first Black person to ever show at 57th Street, Madison Avenue, and I've never been able to get a gallery since.

(upbeat music) - [Person] Memories are erased, and I think that the role of the artist is to create that file of memory.

- [Person] I realized art had to capture the struggle of our people.

- Good storyteller needs a good story listener.

- You're never gonna stop fighting for your land.

You're gonna pass this fight on to your children.

(bird cawing) - The story relies on the folks listening and the willingness of folks to be changed by a story.

- [Crowd] Now!

(indistinct) Now!

(crowd chanting indistinctly) - [Person] Things have gotten so much more polarized and violent.

- [Reporter] Gunman shot and killed two people and wounded five.

- [Person] There has to be a commitment from both sides that civil society is of value.

- [Person] We need to find a way to talk.

- [Person] Okay, David doesn't work... - [Person] We have to try.

- I'm gonna give you another way to vote.

You just can't vote.

- [Person] This country has incorporated so much cultures, beliefs, and we're still a young country.

(person speaking in foreign language) - [Person] Come walk with us.

Come and get in our canoes with us.

(animal calling) See how that lifeway is still very much vibrant within our community.

(upbeat music) (person speaking in foreign language) (upbeat music continues)