8:00 pm
Amherst College Holden Theater
$ 5

A work in progress with Rickerby Hinds and Manu Mukasa of Keeping It Real

December, 1998. Southern California. Four police officers fired 24 shots at an unconscious 19-year old woman killing her while she lay locked in her car. They were charged with criminal wrong-doing and cleared of charges in May 1999.

Taking the inner monologue as a form, playwright Rickerby Hinds paints us the picture of the life of Myeisha Mills. Her innocence and youthfulness contrast on the stage with descriptions of her death, her autopsy and the extraction of the bullets from her body. Hinds creative re-telling of this all-too familiar story of police violence and the African American community forces us to confront our continued tolerance of systemic and brutal racism in this country.