Spill the Honey’s vision is to use the transformative power of the arts to change hearts and minds and seeks 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
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Robin Washington
Vice Chairman

Shoshana Janer
Treasurer

Barbara Swartz
Secretary

Blake Weissmann
Board Member

Lou Gossett Jr.
Advisor

Dr. Michael Berenbaum
Holocaust Advisor

Dr. Susanna Heschel
Historical Advisor

Dr. Hillel Levine
Director of Research & Conciliation

Alexis Scott
Media Advisor

Dr. Gary Zola
Historical Advisor

William G. Anderson
Historical Advisor

Dr. Bruce Haynes
Curriculum Advisor

Dr. Charles Asher Small
Advisor

Candida Sweeting Mobley
Community Outreach

Antar Davidson
Content Strategist

James Mitchell
Senior Advisor

Ambassador David Saperstein
Historical Advisor

Rabbi Jonah Dov Pesner
Historical Advisor

Edwin Black
Historical Advisor

Rabbi Ben Kamin (OBM)
Historical Advisor

Sherry Frank
Advisor

Rev. Dr. Gerald Durley
Clergy Advisor

Donna Charles
Business Outreach

Carl Dickerson
Business Outreach

James E. White Jr.
Advisor

Rev. Kenneth Flowers
Clergy Advisor

Rabbi Capers Funnye
Clergy Advisor

Rabbi Alvin Sugarman
Clergy Advisor

W. Wilder Knight
Legal Counsel (Shared Legacies)

Rabbi Everett Gendler (OBM)
Clergy Advisor

Rev. Jim V Jr.
Clergy Advisor

Mayer Morganroth
Legal Counsel (Shared Legacies)

Devon Cunningham
Art Director

Yale Stum
Music Director

Mali Wilson
Music Director

Shari Kaufman
Holocaust Educator
Howard Hertz
Legal Counsel

Joe Bellanca
Legal Counsel



Judith Glassman Etkin
Community Outreach
Business Advisor
Amy Nederlander

Lisa Phillips
Community Outreach

Dr. Judy Schindler
Curriculum Advisor

Michelle Peres
Community Outreach

Olivia Case
Youth Advisor

Maxine Dovere
Media Advisor & Photographer

Laura Swartz
Event Coordinator

Tiffany Harris
Advisor

Skylar Mitchell
Advisor

Lynn Orman
Music Advisor

Coco Lurz
Alumni Ambassador

Micah Romaner
VP Operations

Sam Edelstein
Social Media Specialist
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Josh Savitz
Lead Creative Director

Julia Jassey
VP Educational Development

Julia Plawker
Lead Graphic Designer

Zion Martin
Ambassador

Alexa Bates
Social Media Specialist

Zachary Schaffer
Lead Facilitator

Zaccariah Wright
Director of Education

Sammy Schwartz
External Community Builder
