Spill the Honey’s vision is to use the transformative power of the arts to change hearts and minds and seek to move people to act for social change. It amplifies the voices of the historic African American-Jewish civil rights coalition in order to reinforce shared legacies that can still foster empathy, nurture compassion, and build partnerships transcending divisions of race, class, gender, and ethnicity. Spill the Honey recognizes and honors the Jewish-American community’s legacy of fighting anti-Semitism and surviving the Holocaust and the African-American community’s legacy enduring slavery and fighting for freedom. The historic connections between these two communities can serve as a foundation for teaching tolerance of cultural differences, focusing public attention on present-day injustice, and encouraging young people to become global citizens.
To promote continued dialogue, cooperation, and coalition building among diverse people and communities to achieve social justice, beginning with African Americans and Jews.
To highlight the alliance between African Americans and Jews that helped America dismantle Jim Crow segregation, though institutional racism still must be vanquished.
To educate the next generation about the history, relevance, and transformative power of uniting diverse communities that share common values of justice, truth, and equality.
To elucidate the reality that persecution is not a monopoly of any one people or culture; rather, it is a shared human experience that can only be ended and transcended when people unite across boundaries
Spill the Honey has developed and produced Shared Legacies: The African-American Jewish Civil Rights Alliance, a feature length documentary film that focuses on a proud chapter in modern American history when two communities of different backgrounds collaborated to transform the moral conscience of the nation. The powerful lessons of this crucial history must be remembered. For too many people today, the history of African Americans and Jews coming together has never been shared nor heard. We believe that that this relationship is, and can be, an inspiration that allows for people now to transcend their differences and cooperate so that future generations can participate in a vibrant pluralism. To date, Spill the Honey has captured more than 150 hours of film interviews with living witnesses to history in a 95 minute documentary
OUR TEAM
Dr. Shari Rogers
President of Spill the Honey; Director of Shared Legacies
Lisa Weitzman
Executive Director of Spill the Honey; Executive Producer of Shared Legacies
Blake Weissman
Spill the Honey
National Youth President
Marvin Beatty
Vice President of Spill the Honey
Alexis Scott
Media Consultant
Shoshana Janer
Treasurer
Barbara Schwartz
Secretary
Robin Washington
Board Member
Rabbi Capers Funnye
Lead Rabbinical Adviser
Dr. Clarence B. Jones
Historical Advisor
Lou Gossett Jr.
Advisor
Dr. Susanna Heschel
Historical Advisor
Dr. Hillel Levine
Historical Advisor
Dr. Michael Berenbaum
Historical Advisor
Dr. Gary Zola
Historical Advisor
William G. Anderson
Historical Advisor
Bruce Haynes
Curriculum Advisor
Ambassador David Saperstein
Historical Advisor
Rabbi Jonah Dov Pesner
Historical Advisor
Edwin Black
Historical Advisor
Rabbi Ben Kamin
Historical Advisor
Sherry Frank
Jewish Community Activist
Rev. Gerald Durley
Adviser
Donna Charles
Business Outreach
Carl Dickerson
Business Outreach
Debbie Keith
Adviser
Dr. Charles Asher Small
Adviser
Candida Sweeting Mobley
Community Outreach
Johnny Taylor
Community Outreach
James E. White Jr.
Adviser
Rev. Kenneth Flowers
Community Outreach
Rabbi Capers Funnye
Rabbinical Adviser
Rabbi Alvin Sugarman
Rabbinical Adviser
W. Wilder Knight
Legal Counsel (Shared Legacies)
Rabbi Everett Gendler
Rabbinical Adviser
Rev. Jim V Jr.
Adviser
Mayer Morganroth
Legal Counsel (Shared Legacies)
Devon Cunningham
Art Director
Yale Stum
Music Director
Mali Hunter
Music Director
Shari Kaufman
Holocaust Educator
Howard Hertz
Legal Counsel
Joe Bellanca
Legal Counsel
Jason Pivoz
CPA
Judith Glassman Etkin
Community Outreach
