Kevin Jerome Everson (1965, USA) was educated in fine arts at the Universities of Ohio and Akron. He is an artist and the creator of several short and feature-length films about working-class black American culture. In 2006, Everson was named one of the 25 Most Important New Faces in Independent Cinema by Filmmaker Magazine. In 2012, he received the prestigious Alpert Award for Film and Video. Several mid-career retrospectives have been devoted to his work, including exhibitions and retrospectives at the Whitney Museum of American Art (2011) and Centre Pompidou (2009), but also at film festivals such as the Vienna International Film Festival (2014) and Visions du Réel (2012). Everson is also a professor at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
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Claudrena N. Harold is Professor of African American and African Studies and History. As part of her ongoing work on the history of black student activism at UVA, she has written, produced, and co-directed with Kevin Everson nine short films.