Don't Go Tellin' Your Momma

Directed by Simon Davis, Topaz Jones, Rubberband, Jason Sondock · Starring Rodney Jackson, Emma Janice Jones, Topaz Jones, Francis Perez · 2021

Rapper Topaz Jones revisits the people, places and ideas that shaped him through a series of alphabetical vignettes inspired by the Black ABCs flashcards created by Chicago educators in 1970.

A Sundance-winning visual album that turns a rapper's childhood into a vibrant, inventive ABC of Black life and history.

Winner of a 2021 Sundance Jury Prize, Topaz Jones's visual album is an autobiographical journey into his formative influences. Told in vignettes, it is modeled off the Black ABC's—an invention from 1970, when Black educa

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