The 18-minute doc that'll make you realize you missed a whole cultural revolution happening on playgrounds.
An illuminating look at the influence that hand games played by Black girls has had on the American creative landscape.
Direction
Stephenson and Brewster pack decades of erasure into 18 tight minutes.
Production
Archival playground footage hits harder than any talking head could.
Director
Michèle Stephenson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'Miss Mary Mack' melody you've heard a thousand times? It likely descends from 19th-century Blackface minstrel songs, transformed by Black girls into something defiantly their own.
Directors Stephenson and Brewster spent years on the Oscar-shortlisted 'American Promise'; this project was born watching their own daughter's playground games and realizing nobody was documenting this lineage.
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