Upcoming Film Festivals Featuring Black Filmmakers’ Movies

Below are the dates and sites of upcoming film festivals around the country and samples of the movies by and about African Americans that you can expect to see there: Service To Man won the American Black Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize in Miami in June 2016. It will screen this weekend in both the…

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White allies show solidarity with Black Lives Matter

In the wake of the recent police killings of two black men, Philando Castile and Alton Sterling, public opinion, particularly among white people, has started to shift. Forty new chapters of a national network of groups and individuals organizing white people for racial justice –– Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) –– have formed in the weeks since the incidents.

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It’s Time to Ring the Alarm About White Nationalism

The media reports on Islamic terrorism and individual ambushes of police, but it has largely overlooked increasingly brazen demonstrations and violence by the Far Right, treating each as a separate unconnected episode. But are they? In the last year, the level of violence has ramped up dramatically.

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Did a Fear of Slave Revolts Drive American Independence?

FOR more than two centuries, we have been reading the Declaration of Independence wrong. Or rather, we’ve been celebrating the Declaration as people in the 19th and 20th centuries have told us we should, but not the Declaration as Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and John Adams wrote it. To them, separation from Britain was as much, if not more, about racial fear and exclusion as it was about inalienable rights.

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Lynching Survivor’s Memoir Wins Prestigious Book Award

Dr. James Cameron’s memoir A Time of Terror: A Survivor’s Story received the 2016 Independent Publisher Book Silver Award for the Great Lakes – Best Regional Non-Fiction during a ceremony held May 10th in Chicago. It is the only account of a lynching ever written by a survivor. The prize-winning 3rd edition contains 50 vintage photos, over 100 background notes, never-before-published chapters, and a Foreword, Introduction, and Afterword.

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¿Qué es el Holocausto Negro?

La historia de más de 400 años de los capturados africanos y sus descendientes tiene muchas similaridades con las experiencias del Holocausto de los judíos europeos – y otros víctimas de atrocidades masivas. Esta exposición explica aquellas similaridades y las razones por las cuales el fundador de ABHM creía que es importante usar la palabra “holocausto” en su título.

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ABHM Founder’s Day Gathering 2016: Black Voices Matter!

The theme of ABHM Founder’s Day Gathering on February 27, 2016 is “Black Voices Matter!” This evening of arts and culture dramatizes the historic and enduring struggle against violence and oppression by black writers and artists. ABHM’s annual Founder’s Day Gathering for Racial Repair and Reconciliation celebrates the civil rights legacy of Dr. James Cameron, builds community, and raises funds to operate the museum’s public programs.

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