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Crown Heights
MCC Theater
“Lakeith Stanfield delivers a breakout performance in “Crown Heights,” a dramatized true story of miscarried justice that he anchors with restrained stillness and sensitivity.” - Washington Post
In the spring of 1980, a teenager is gunned down in the streets of Flatbush, Brooklyn. The police pressure a child witness to identify a suspect. As a result, Colin Warner, an 18-year-old kid from nearby Crown Heights, is wrongfully convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison. Colin's childhood friend Carl 'KC' King devotes his life to fighting for Colin's freedom. He works on appeals, takes loans for lawyer fees and becomes a legal courier to learn the court system. This incredible true story is adapted from the acclaimed This American Life segment by writer/director Matt Ruskin, with Lakeith Stanfield playing Colin Warner and Nnamdi Asomugha as Carl King. 94 min.
MCC in IV
Honor the Scorned: An Evening of Self Expression with Eve Moreno
BIKO Garage 6612 Sueno Rd, Isla Vista
The MCC hosts a quarterly open mic for anyone to artistically express themselves using all creative outlets – including spoken word, poetry, hip hop, music, and dance. This quarters MC will be Eve Moreno, a trans femme and queer multimedia artist who identifies with the pronouns they/them/ and theirs. Eve's cultural background stems many parts of Latin America. Moreno's work highlights transgender and queer communities of color through photography, writing, video, painting, illustration and performance. Their work has been featured in community shows in Los Angeles, the Getty Museum, and the Huntington Library.
Panel Discussion
Free-Dem Foundations: From Wrongful Incarceration to Community Mobilization
MCC Theater
Robert Jones, Jerome Moran and Daniel Rideau
Panel Discussion at Center for Black Studies Research, 4603 South Hall: 12PM
Discussion with Jerome Morgan, MCC Theater: 6PM
Free-Dem Foundations is a non-profits community based organization that partners with local business and NGO's to empower New Orleans' area youth. Created by Robert Jones, Jerome Moran and Daniel Rideau, these men were all wrongfully convicted and served a total of more than fifty years in Angola Prison before being found innocent.
Cup of Culture
Symbols of Resistance
MCC Theater
Symbols of Resistance looks at the history of the Chican@ Movement as it emerges in the 1970s with a focus on events in Colorado and Northern New Mexico. The documentary explores the struggle for land, the student movement, and community struggles against police repression. Specifically, it challenges the criminalization of immigration by emphasizing the history of the U.S. expansion and occupation of northern Mexico during the Mexican-American War (1846–48) – when “the border crossed people.” 1h 15 mins.
