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, […]
Category: Films & Documentaries
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 […]
3feb – Documentary: Long Time Coming: A 1955 Baseball Story
The Georgetown Neighborhood Library will have a screening of Long Time Coming: A 1955 Baseball Story. In 1955, when racial segregation defined the South, two groups of twelve-year-old boys stepped onto a baseball field in a non-violent act […]
Aunt Betty & Fort Stevens
It was 1861, only blocks from my house, when Elizabeth Proctor Thomas’ farm was taken from her. It was replaced by a badly needed Union military fort that would defend Washington DC. How Mrs. Thomas […]
Film and Discussion: Southwest Remembered: A Story of Urban Renewal
When Saturday, January 11, 2020, 2 – 4 PM Venue Anacostia Community Museum Event Location Program Room Cost Free Get Tickets http://www.eventbrite.com… Related Exhibition A Right To The City Details This award-winning documentary examines the history of Southwest […]
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