A.C.T.O.R (A Continuing Talk on Race)- A New Reckoning of History
Date and Time
Nov 6, 2016 4:00 pm
Location
14th & V
2021 14th St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20009
Nov 6, 2016 4:00 pm
14th & V
The A.C.T.O.R. (A Continuing Talk on Race) open discussion series is hosted by Busboys and Poets as a community service. It provides the opportunity for people to come together and speak openly and honestly about issues of race. The intent is that each person walks away from the discussion feeling something: challenged, educated, uncomfortable, enlightened, refreshed, reassured and hopefully inspired and moved to action! Each month there is a new topic for discussion.
This Month:
This election season we have witnessed a new churning of overt racism and racist beliefs very similar to the boom of racism and increase of membership in the KKK after the release of the original film The Birth of a Nation. Join us in this discussion as we compare and contrast the cultural climate resulting from Donald Trump's Racist Presidential campaign and that of D.W. Griffith's America. We will use The Birth of A Nation films, then and now, as a framework!
Our guest will be Esther Iverem a social justice journalist, poet and visual artist. She produces and hosts ‘On The Ground: Voices of Resistance from the Nation’s Capital’ on WPFW Pacifica Radio in Washington, DC. She is the founder of the pioneering Black website SeeingBlack.com, a founding member of DC Poets Against the War and Split This Rock, and a recipient of numerous awards and honors, including a National Arts Journalism Fellowship at Columbia University.Â
Her most recent book is We Gotta Have It: Twenty Years of Seeing Black at the Movies (Hachette Book Group) and she is the author of two books of poems, The Time: Portrait of a Journey Home and Living in Babylon (Africa World Press). Before working as an independent writer and artist, she was a staff culture writer for The Washington Post and New York Newsday. Since 2010, her fiber and multi-media works have been featured in two one-woman shows, several group shows, and acquired for personal collections. Iverem also curated the show, “Emancipation: Meditations on Freedom,†2013-14 at the District of Columbia Arts Center. She is exhibiting this fall and winter at Busboys and Poets Takoma, Area 405 in Baltimore and the Cade Art Gallery in Arnold, MD.
Moderated by:Â
Professor Fahima Seck who was born in the Village of Harlem, NYC, is an HU Bison and producer-at-large at Pacifica Radio. She works as a consultant and is an adjunct university professor.
Free and open to all.Â
A.C.T.O.R. is held on the first Sunday of every month at Busboys and Poets 14 th & V; 5:00 PM.
