Black Excellence in Our Community

This film helps to redefine “Black Excellence” as not only belonging to pop culture and public figures but to include and uplift the work of Black youth in Aiken, South Carolina.

Filmmakers: Tiffany Upson, Kameron Gardner, Morgan Thompson – 12th Grade, Aiken High School (Aiken, South Carolina)

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Published June 2023


Produced by What’s the Story? The Young Filmmakers’ Social Action Team

Supported and funded by Middlebury Bread Loaf School of English

with Additional Support from The Kathryn Wasserman Davis Collaborative in Conflict Transformation and

the SNAVE Foundation