Documentary planned on black experience

Columbus native and Black Lives Matter of Columbus founder and organizer Brittany King currently is scheduled to be included in a planned documentary film on the black experience and racial identity. There is no working title yet for the video.

Independent filmmaker and Indianapolis native Rachel Hardy, who recently moved to Atlanta, was in Columbus Saturday to talk with King and shoot footage of Black Lives Matters of Columbus leaders with King. She asked King in part what it has been like for a black woman navigating through minority concerns in a conservative Republican community that also is the home of Vice President Mike Pence.

The planned project “addresses the general views and stereotypes the world has placed on the black community,” Hardy said. “There is this definition of blackness and what is means to be black that stereotypes how we should look, act and dress.”

King is among five black leaders to be included in the film that highlights educators, activists and others. All of the people have some ties to Indiana, Hardy said.