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Crip Camp, by Nicole Newnham and Jim LeBrecht. Photo: Steve Honigsbaum
When James “Jim” LeBrecht was 15 years old, he picked up a video camera and pointed it at Camp Jened, a utopian summer camp in upstate New York for teenagers with disabilities. That summer day in 1971 was a seminal moment in the future filmmaker’s life as LeBrecht introduced his fellow campers to the camera.
The film footage LeBrecht captured would later be included in
Crip Camp – a documentary he and fellow Oakland filmmaker Nicole Newnham directed and produced, along with Sara Bolder (LeBrecht’s wife), and former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle. It is now one of the five documentaries nominated for an Academy Award and can be seen on Netflix.
Celebrating Black voices: Here s a look back at Dr. Maya Angelou s Bay Area connection, legacy
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OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) As millions of Americans clung to the poem flowing from National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman during President Joe Biden s inauguration, it was hard not to draw connections to a scene in that same spot decades earlier.
In 1993, Dr. Maya Angelou became the first female inaugural poet in U.S. presidential history. In Gorman s words, If you can t see it. It s hard to become it. I think its beautifully poetic the way their work weaves together, but also the impact it has had just on our community at large, said Nia McAllister, public programs manager at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD).