Emergency Needs

Emergency Needs considers the 1968 Hough Riots and the Glenville Shootout in Cleveland Ohio and the response to the crisis as observed in color footage from a local press conference by Mayor Carl B Stokes Stokes the first Black mayor of a major American city maintains calm and measured composure his demeanor and words help diffuse an already incendiary situation Actress Esosa Edosomwan dressed in a suit and tie delivers Stokes statements The footage of Stokes and the filmed performance of Edosomwan are rendered in split screen and combined with footage and reportage from the streets