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Social justice music project debuted at U-M back in national spotlight amid protests
Read full article: Social justice music project debuted at U-M back in national spotlight amid protestsANN ARBOR In 2015, the Mens Glee Club at the University of Michigan debuted a powerful multimovement work titled Seven Last Words of the Unarmed by Atlanta-based composer Joel Thompson. Although the project is five years old, many are revisiting and discovering the work following the recent killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery. People have been sharing it again and reaching out -- it has been really overwhelming.Rogers is currently the director of choral activities at the U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance. Along with premiering Seven Last Words, Rogers produced an award-winning film Love, Life & Loss with Michigan Media and has spent several years creating educational resources with scholars from other disciplines that can be found at sevenlastwords.org. Trayvon Martin, 16Mom, Im going to college. Amadou Diallo, 23I dont have a gun.