The Toad Listens: Pain and Perspective (video, part 1)

Pain and Perspective video series: part one

Typically, the Joplin Toad takes an A-political stance; our goal is to lift up our community and the art and culture within it. During this sometimes troubling year, however, we felt the urge to do a new kind of series that we feel is based not on political issues, but human ones.

We interviewed 6 respected and kindhearted residents of Joplin Missouri, all of whom love their city, inviting them to lend their thoughts and stories about being a person of color in these times and in this place. This is the first chapter in that series.

Chapter 1: introductions

In this first segment, the interviewees introduce themselves, then answer 2 questions:

1: What do you love about Joplin?

2: How are you doing in the wake of this years’ events?

Director: Mark Neuenschwander
Director of photography: Derek Hammeke
Produced by: Mark Neuenschwander and Matthew McBirth

Edited by: Jeremiah Jones

Music: Words or Less
special thanks to Ozark Christian College

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Want more of this conversation? watch PART 2.

Entire series- videos, podcast episodes, and editorial- can be viewed right here.

LISTEN in to a different take on the race conversation in the Q & A podcast set in the same series, found here.