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Five Nights Toward Freedom: MLK Commemorative Film Series
January 18, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EST
Monday, January 18 | Whose Streets
- Hosted by Rashida Harrison Co-Hosted by The MSU Detroit Center (Open to the general public)
- Register for Whose Streets
Tuesday, January 19 | Night Catches Us
- Hosted by Tama Hamilton-Wray
- Register for Night Catches Us
Wednesday, January 20 | I Am Not Your Negro
- Hosted by Jeff Wray
- Register for I am Not Your Negro
Thursday, January 21 | Fundi: The Ella Baker Story
- Hosted by Tamura Lomax
- Register for Fundi
Friday, January 22 | Freedom Riders with Q&A
Hosted by Rashida Harrison, Tama Hamilton-Wray, Jeff Wray, and Tamura Lomax Co-Hosted by WKAR (Open to the general public)
Join the virtual screening and community conversation featuring “Freedom Riders,” a film that tells the powerful, harrowing, and ultimately inspirational story of six months in 1961 that changed America forever. In 1961, more than 400 Americans risked their lives journeying through the Deep South, deliberately violating Jim Crow laws to challenge a segregated interstate travel system. Following the film, join a moderated online discussion with panelists:
- Tama Hamilton-Wray, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Africana Film Studies in MSU’s Residential College in the Arts and Humanities.
- Rashida Harrison, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Social Relations and Policy at MSU’s James Madison College.
- Jeff Wray is Professor of Film Studies and Associate Chair of Undergraduate Studies in MSU’s Department of English.
- Tamura Lomax, Ph.D., is the Founding Associate Professor of African American and African Studies (AAAS) at Michigan State University.