Through Film, Adam L. McMath Preserves Community History

Adam L. McMath is a filmmaker, a community organizer and the executive director of arts nonprofit Black Alphabet. Though originally from St. Louis, Missouri, McMath has been living in Edgewater for the past 12 years. McMath has been working for Black Alphabet since its founding in 2013, originally joining as a filmmaker, working on content “for us by us,” as he believes it is important for his community. He feels preserving history through film is crucial to enacting positive change in the present, and hopes to pass on the skills to tell these stories to the next generation. McMath states that being a storyteller now is easier than ever, while using that to his advantage. This is what his Chicago sounds like.

This segment of “This Is What Chicago Sounds Like” was produced by Ari Mejia. To learn more about Adam L. McMath, follow him on Instagram @adammcmath.