by lindaoppenheim | Sep 18, 2018 | Events, Video
In July 1967, Detroit experienced one of America’s most violent civil disturbances. The film directed by Brian Kaufman fuses rare archival footage from the era – including newsreel, educational films and more than 400 reels of home movies donated by Detroiters...
by lindaoppenheim | Sep 13, 2018 | Events, Video
On Monday, September 17 at 5:30 pm, the Princeton Garden Theatre will screen THE COLOR OF MEDICINE, which chronicles the rise and fall of St. Louis, Missouri’s premier black hospital that at one point in history, trained the largest number of black doctors and nurses...
by lindaoppenheim | Nov 28, 2017 | Events, Video
On Wednesday, November 29 at 7:30 p.m., there will be a screening of films from the New Negress Film Society. “As members of the collective New Negress Film Society, artists Frances Bodomo and Ja’Tovia Gary seek to create spaces for support and exhibition of...
by lindaoppenheim | Mar 22, 2017 | Events, Exhibit, Video
Shown in conjunction with Princeton University Art Museum’s exhibition Revealing Pictures, director Ousmane Sembene’s critically acclaimed Black Girl explores the struggles of a young woman from Senegal who becomes a servant in France. In French with...
by lindaoppenheim | Oct 22, 2016 | Article, Events, News
Thanks to U.S. 1 newspaper for its excellent cover story on Ruha Benjamin’s Racial Literacy series, written by Michele Alperin. Next in the series is a screening of California Reel’s “Race: The Power of an Illusion” at the Garden Theater. The three-part series...
