Steven

Dr. Niama Williams’ Steven is a psychological triumph. This long overdue Song of Survival, punctuated by the cataclysmic overtures of epiphany, minimalist agreement, and happenstance, is proof that the arrival of the truth does not always come via verbal messenger. From the beginning with Schindler’s List, Dr. Williams asks the film’s director to explain, robbing a people of their origins. She poignantly points out that Middle Passage descendants live without a traceable identity and unlike the majority, .cannot fabricate what was deliberately stamped out of existence. Dr. Williams’ text provides a tracing of the indelible markings each of us makes on the other, and on the collective consciousness of American society.