We Hold These Truths  is a musical and cinematic triptych featuring composer Tamar-kali's setting of three iconic poems from the turn of the 20th century through the Harlem Renaissance: Paul Laurence Dunbar's "We Wear the Mask," Langston Hughes's "I, Too" and Claude McKay's “If We Must Die.”

A striking film by dream hampton (director of the Peabody-winning and Emmy-nominated film Surviving R. Kelly),   We Hold These Truths   stands as  both an affirmation of wonder and joy, as well as a testimony to the vigil kept for the full realization of liberty.


The voices of these poets, raised in the past, echo through generations—from colored, to negro, to Black and African American—in a modern-day landscape where the watch continues.