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P. Frank Williams Talks Directing ‘Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told’ and Why It Was The World’s Greatest Black Festival

During the 1990s, Atlanta was transforming into the epicenter of Black culture and Freaknik was unequivocally one of the driving forces behind the city becoming a hub for a new expression of Blackness.

Launched in 1983, Freaknik was an annual spring break event on the grounds of the Atlanta University Center. Sponsored by the D.C. Metro Club, it was for students who could not afford to take the trip home for spring break. Years later, it would evolve into “the most infamous street party.”

More than 40 years since its birth, the story of Freanknik will finally be told.

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