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A 20-20 Vision of Community Resilience Equity and Sustainability
January 15, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
The Center for Community Health Education Research and Service and the Roxbury International Film Festival is opening their Community Conversations Series on January 15th, 2020 in honor of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 91st birthday.
Two films will be shown at this time followed by a panel of “subject matter experts” about the film’s content as well as “community conversations” around race, racism, and racial health equity.
Two documentary films will be featured: Murder in Mobile, a film set in 1948, in Mobile, Alabama, where a black man named Rayfield Davis was beaten to death by a white man who was not prosecuted. Fair Game – Surviving a 1960 Georgia Lynching, in May 1960, a Black New Jersey mother moved heaven and earth to rescue her son from a town notorious for lynching. James Fair, Jr. was arrested, jailed, tried, convicted, and sentenced to the electric chair in less than three days.
- Event date: Wednesday, January 15th, 2020
- Event time: 6:00 – 8:00p
- Event location: John D. O’Bryant African American Institute
- Event contact (if applicable): Daniel Mango, CHEERS – d.mango@northeastern.edu