Please join us for an evening of short films on the theme of "Community Activists Making Change." We look at everyday activists who created change in their communities, some literally starting at their kitchen tables.

When one looks at the big movements that made radical change in the country, we forget that these movements started with everyday people who took what they had, where they were, to make changes large and small that had a positive impact on their community. These films show the beginnings of the "kitchen table activism" that made change happen and gives us a roadmap on how to continue to make change.

 
Film Program:

Curated by Savanna Washington & Myrakel Baker

Black Lives Matter: How a Hashtag Defined a Movement

Producer/Editor: Sabrina Schmidt Gordon

TRT: 8 mins.

The origin story of #BlackLivesMatter told by its founders Alicia Garza, Opal Tometi, and Patrisse Cullors. 

Union

Producers: Samantha Curley, Mars Verrone

Directors: Stephen Maing, Brett Story

TRT: 16 minute excerpt of film

Up against one of the most powerful companies on the planet, a group of Amazon workers embark on an unprecedented campaign to unionize their warehouse in Staten Island, New York.

Blueprint For My People

 Producer, Director, Editor: Carol Bash

 TRT: 10 mins.

 Blueprint For My People is a visual poem that explores the African American experience by featuring rare archival blue photographs called cyanotypes

Shame of Chicago, Shame of the Nation: Eps 1 – The Color Tax

 Producer, Director: Bruce Orenstein

 Producer: Chris L. Jenkins

 TRT: 37 mins.

Shame of Chicago is a four-part documentary series that lays bare the story of how Chicago devised the nation's most sweeping system of racially segregated housing-and how it diminished the lives of generations of Black families, creating the vast racial wealth gap that persists to this day. Centering Black voices and experiences, the series also brings to life the resistance Black Chicagoans mounted throughout the 20th century in the face of systemic and often violent discrimination in the private sector and at nearly every level of government.