'Civil Rights Cinema' continues Thursday with film on Black Panthers
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8/10/2010
Antioch College will continue its Civil Rights Cinema series with
"What We Want, What We Believe: The Black Panther Party Library" at
7:30 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 12 in Antioch College's South Hall Herndon Gallery.
Prior to the screening of Roz Payne's 2006 documentary, guests will
hear from speaker Hasan Kwame Jeffries, author of "Bloody Lowndes:
Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama's Black Belt" (2009).
Jeffries, a professor of history at the Ohio State University, will
introduce the footage and speak to the history and goals of the Black Panthers.
The film is the fourth in the college's five-part series that
explores the enduring legacy of Freedom Summer 1964. On Aug. 4, the
series presented "In the Heat of the Night," a provocative thriller
about race relations and murder in a small Mississippi town which
garnered much acclaim and five Oscars.
The series concludes on Aug. 18 with "Let Freedom Sing: How Music
Inspired the Civil Rights Movement," an uplifting documentary
focusing on the centrality of music to the '60s struggle for equal
rights and interviews musician-activists and songwriters who made
lasting contributions to the movement through their music. The film
features 29 musical performances and interviews with Gladys Knight,
Chuck D, Pete Seeger, Quincy Jones and many more.
The Civil Rights Cinema series was presented in conjunction with "Oh
Freedom Over Me," a multimedia exhibition at the College. It became
with a screening of Keith Beauchamp's "The Untold Story of Emmett
Louis Till," which was followed by the Academy Award nominated
documentary "Freedom on My Mind."
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