'The Mother Project' has its world premiere at the DeLuxe Theater in Fifth Ward May 18.
“Once each of them opened up, they were really happy to know that their story was going to be told, that people were interested in hearing it,” says Decker. “A couple of them seemed surprised that anyone cared to hear it. And so they were very happy that we cared and that we thought that their story was worth telling, and that it was going to be told to a lot of people.
They ultimately decided to focus on Black mothers, says Decker, because “theirs are the children that are failed the most by American systems.” Those failures manifested in the interviewees’ experiences, including absent fathers, fatal run-ins with law enforcement, institutional racism, and substandard health care, specifically the higher rate of difficult childbirths among Black women.
“One of the funny things that she would do sometimes is if she didn't hear from some of her kids in a while, she would call them and hang up on them [so] they would call her back,” says Starkes. “So the thing about, ‘Oh, I'll call tomorrow. I'm too busy’ — I just hope [the show] reaches a lot of people to think, ‘Let me do this now: call my mama’.”
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