Five on the Black Hand Side is a performance featuring eyewitness accounts and personal stories about the Vietnam War told in a radio show format.
Five on the Black Hand Side tells of soldiers who returned to an unwelcoming country that was a hotbed of racial tension, mothers who lost children in a strange land, women who bore the burden of raising children without fathers, and men left to keep the love light burning while women served their country to nurse war-wounded African American men.
These stories are woven together through interviews and a soundtrack of live music that details the impact of the Vietnam War on African American lives in the United States.
