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SUMMARY:34th Annual Black Film Festival
LOCATION:Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library - Central Library\nMartin
  Luther King Jr. Memorial Library - Central Library
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DESCRIPTION:Annual Film Festival covering Black movie history and Black cu
 lture in film.\nhttps://dclibrary.libnet.info/event/7641748
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Join us at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memo
 rial Library for The 34th Annual Black Film Festival! We present a selecti
 on of great Black Films and short documentaries before each film\, to cele
 brate and showcase Black art and life in America.</p>\n<p>We will be scree
 ning films each Tuesday in&nbsp\;February showcasing different aspects of 
 the Black experience!&nbsp\;Movies will be shown in the Auditorium.&nbsp\;
 </p>\n<p></p>\n<p><strong>Documentaries will start @ 3:00pm&nbsp\;</strong
 ></p>\n<p><strong>Feature Films will start @ 5:00pm</strong> (Double Featu
 res will play back to back)</p>\n<p><br /><strong>Tuesday\, Feb. 7th-&nbsp
 \;</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Emancipation</strong> &amp\;&nbsp\;Documentary
 : <strong>James Baldwin: The Price of a Ticket</strong></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><
 a href="https://www.kanopy.com/en/dclibrary/video/116250">JAMES BALDWIN: T
 HE PRICE OF A TICKET</a></p>\n<p><em>@3:00pm</em></p>\n<p>1h 27min&nbsp\;<
 br />JAMES BALDWIN: THE PRICE OF A TICKET captures on film the passionate 
 intellect and courageous writing of a man who was born black\, impoverishe
 d\, gay and gifted.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/t
 t12530246/">Emancipation&nbsp\;</a></p>\n<p><em>@5:00pm</em></p>\n<p>2h 12
 m</p>\n<p>Based on the true story of an enslaved man who risks his life fo
 r his family and freedom. Starring Will Smith.</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><st
 rong>Tuesday\, Feb. 14th-</strong>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><strong>The Woman King\,
  Lemonade</strong> &amp\; Documentary:&nbsp\;<strong>Strange Fruit</strong
 ></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><a href="https://www.kanopy.com/en/dclibrary/video/1754
 42">STRANGE FRUIT </a></p>\n<p><em>@3:00pm</em></p>\n<p>57m<br />Strange F
 ruit is the first documentary exploring the history and legacy of the Bill
 ie Holiday classic.&nbsp\;The song's evolution tells a dramatic story of A
 merica's radical past using one of the most influential protest songs ever
  written as its epicenter.</p>\n<p><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5
 662106/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1">Lemonade</a></p>\n<p><em>@5:00pm</em></p>\n<p>1
 h 4m<br />&nbsp\;a concept album with a song cycle that relates Beyonc&eac
 ute\;'s emotional journey after her husband's infidelity in a generational
  and racial context.<br />Lemonade' is a deeply personal testament describ
 ing Queen Bey's discovery that her husband &ndash\; the rapper Jay-Z &ndas
 h\; had been unfaithful. During its twelve songs we accompany Beyonc&eacut
 e\; on her journey from denial and anger to emptiness and apathy\, forgive
 ness and redemption. It's also a manifesto of personal creativity</p>\n<p>
 </p>\n<p><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8093700/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0"
 >Woman King</a>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>PG 13 2h 14m&nbsp\;&nbsp\;<br />A historica
 l epic inspired by true events that took place in The Kingdom of Dahomey\,
  one of the most powerful states of Africa in the 18th and 19th centuries.
 &nbsp\;In the 1800s\, a group of all-female warriors protects the African 
 kingdom of Dahomey with skills and fierceness unlike anything the world ha
 s ever seen. Faced with a new threat\, Gen. Nanisca trains the next genera
 tion of recruits to fight against a foreign enemy that's determined to des
 troy their way of life.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday\, Feb 21st-</stro
 ng>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><strong>Miles of Smiles\, Years of Struggle:&nbsp\;The 
 First African American Trade Union</strong>\, <strong>I am not Your Negro<
 /strong> &amp\; <strong>13th&nbsp\;</strong></p>\n<p><a href="https://www.
 kanopy.com/en/dclibrary/video/139711">Miles of Smiles\, Years of Struggle:
 &nbsp\;The First African American Trade Union </a></p>\n<p><em>@3:00pm</em
 ></p>\n<p>59m<br />The story of the organizing of the first black trade un
 ion - The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters - provides an account of Afr
 ican American working life between the Civil War and World War II.</p>\n<p
 ></p>\n<p><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5804038/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
 ">I am not Your Negro</a></p>\n<p><em>@5:00pm</em></p>\n<p><br />PG 13&nbs
 p\;1h 35m<br />Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern Amer
 ica with his unfinished novel\, Remember This House.&nbsp\;Filmmaker Raoul
  Peck examines James Baldwin's unfinished book about the lives and assassi
 nations of Medgar Evers\, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.</p>\n<p></p
 >\n<p><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5895028/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_2">13
 th</a></p>\n<p>1h 40m<br />&nbsp\;<br />Filmmaker Ava DuVernay explores th
 e history of racial inequality in the United States\, focusing on the fact
  that the nation's prisons are disproportionately filled with African-Amer
 icans.</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday\, Feb. 28th-</strong></p>\n
 <p><strong>Black Panther: Wakanda Forever</strong> &amp\; documentary: <st
 rong>Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property&nbsp\;</strong></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><
 a href="https://www.kanopy.com/en/dclibrary/video/139719">Nat Turner: A Tr
 oublesome Property&nbsp\;</a></p>\n<p><em>@5:00pm</em></p>\n<p>Nat Turner'
 s slave rebellion is a watershed event in America's long and troubled hist
 ory of slavery and racial conflict. NAT TURNER: A TROUBLESOME PROPERTY tel
 ls the story of that violent confrontation and of the ways that story has 
 been continuously re-told during the years since 1831. It is a film about 
 a critical moment in American history and of the multiple ways in which th
 at moment has since been remembered.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><a href="https://www
 .imdb.com/title/tt9114286/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1">Black Panther: Wakanda Forev
 er</a><br />Rated PG-13 2h 41m</p>\n<p>The nation of Wakanda is pitted aga
 inst intervening world powers as they mourn the loss of their King T'Chall
 a.</p>\n<p></p>\nhttps://dclibrary.libnet.info/event/7641748
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