2018 was a contentious year featuring a high stakes mid-term election with several marquee races making news globally. Filmmaker Robert Greenwald examines that year’s voter suppression efforts through the eyes of the Georgia voters affected […]
Category: Films & Documentaries
20feb – Film: Beloved, 5:30pm
Adapted from Nobel-prize winning author Toni Morrison’s acclaimed novel, Beloved is set in 1873 Ohio, as Sethe, a mother of three, is haunted by her horrific past of enslavement, and her desperate efforts to achieve […]
18feb – Film: Suppressed: The Fight to Vote, 7pm
Suppressed: The Fight to Vote Film Screenings Multiple Dates Francis A. Gregory Library 3660 Alabama Ave SE Anacostia Library 1800 Good Hope Rd SE 2018 was a contentious year featuring a high stakes mid-term election […]
14feb – Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Season 6 @7pm
Join WETA and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Sirius XM host Joe Madison for a screening & discussion of Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Season Six.
12feb – Documentary Premiere: Race for the White House “Obama v. McCain,” 7pm
William G. McGowan Theater – National Archives Foundation 700 Pennsylvania Ave NW Race for the White House is a CNN original series narrated by Academy Award–winner Mahershala Ali. Using archival footage, interviews, and stylized dramatizations, […]
12feb – Films: Fannie Lou Hamer: Voting Rights Activist & Voting Matters: Fighting for Voting Rights, 6pm
West End Library 2301 L St NW 202-724-8707 1. Voting rights activist and Civil Rights Leader Fannie Lou Hamer, born in 1917 in Montgomery County, Mississippi, was the granddaughter of a slave and the youngest […]
8feb – Film: “Harriet”, 7 – 9pm
Join Westminster Church & DC Black History Celebration Committee FREE Showing of Harriet 400 I St SW Donation Optional 202 484 7701
6feb – Film: “A Raisin in the Sun”
The film adaptation of the award-winning play, by Lorraine Hansberry, about a struggling black family living on Chicago’s South Side and the impact of an unexpected insurance bequest. Each family member sees the bequest as […]
5feb – Answering the Call
Fifty-one years ago, the nation watched in horror as bloody images of police attacks on civil rights protestors in Selma, Alabama aired on television. John Witeck was a sophomore at the University of Virginia when […]
4feb – Film, “Suppressed: The Fight to Vote”
Suppressed: The Fight to Vote, a new documentary by Robert Greenwald (Director of Outfoxed, Walmart: The High Cost of Low Price, and Making A Killing: Guns, Greed, & the NRA), weaves together personal stories from voters across the state of Georgia to […]
