Jeff Campbell’s Jedidiah Blackstone Brings Hidden Black Pioneers to Life

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Locally, he founded the Colorado Hip Hop Coalition, an after-school program for youth, and later Emancipation Theater. His latest production, Jedidiah Blackstone, is the central storyteller of real-life stories about pioneers and Black western history. Jedidiah Blackstone is a modern-day retelling of those stories through the Jedidiah Blackstone character (who has his own backstory as well). Jeff says he is literally becoming Jedidiah Blackstone in everything he does, embodying the storyteller for the performance. It’s first a war of words; they shape the narrative, to shape perspective, to shape opinion, to shape people’s beliefs.