Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the bombing that took the lives of four young girls at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963, this reading is part of Project1Voice's nation-wide, simultaneous performance of staged readings.

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Project1Voice and Howard University in cooperation with Duke Ellington School of the Arts and African Continuum Theatre Company present FOUR LITTLE GIRLS: Birmingham 1963.

A Staged Reading written by Christina Ham and directed by Phylicia Rashad.

Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the bombing that took the lives of four young girls at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963, this reading is part of Project1Voice's nation-wide, simultaneous performance of staged readings.

Today at 6 p.m., you can tune in for a live broadcast on the Kennedy Center's website: http://www.kennedy-center.org/.

Following the reading, there will be a post-performance discussion.

http://youtu.be/LPumYWKaz3g

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