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Cup of Culture
The #1 Bus Chronicles
Director: Joel Katz
In-person: MCC Theater
The #1 Bus Chronicles uses a small sociological microcosm – a bus stop on an industrial highway in New Jersey – to intimately portray some of the most marginalized lives in America today - the ‘working poor’, the recently incarcerated, and immigration asylum seekers. In startlingly intimate encounters, strangers share hopes and dreams as well as stories of resiliency, suffering and loss. Many are in states of transition, struggle, or waiting for change. 2021. 58 min.
Post-film Q&A with director Joel Katz.
Cup of Culture
The 13th
Online
Filmmaker Ava DuVernay explores the history of racial inequality in the United States, focusing on the fact that the nation's prisons are disproportionately filled with African-Americans. 1h 40m
To uphold our weekly film screenings and discussions, we will be transforming our cup of culture series into a virtual setting. Every Wednesday, we will watch a Netflix documentary or movie as a collective and we will have a post-film discussion afterwards. Zoom Link for watching and discussions:
Cup of Culture
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
MCC Theater
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution is the first feature length documentary to explore the Black Panther Party. Master documentarian Stanley Nelson goes straight to the source, weaving a treasure trove of rare archival footage with the voices of the people who were there: police, FBI informants, journalists, white supporters and detractors, and Black Panthers who remained loyal to the party and those who left it. Dr. Diane Fujino, Director of the Center for Black Studies Research at UCSB, will lead a post-film discussion. (115 min, English, 2016)
Watch the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F56O3kZ9qr0
Conscious Conversations Series
The Future is Black, The Future is Intersex
Sean Saifa Wall
Online
The concept of intersex justice is a response to the systemic conditions that harm intersex people. For Black people and people of color who are intersex, we contend with multiple identities that shape our relationship to the world, our friends and loved ones and even ourselves. This talk will explore the birth of intersex justice, the campaign to end intersex genital surgeries on infants and children and why this work is vital to our survival across communities.
Co-sponsors: RCSGD
Photo credit: Harry Daniels ATL
