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SUMMARY:Searching for Freedom: The George H. White Story
DESCRIPTION:The Baton Foundation\, in partnership with the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History\, will host a film screening and Q & A about Post-Reconstruction Congressman George Henry White. This program is funded by Atlanta Civic Site–The Annie E. Casey Foundation and is free to the public. Registration is required. \nAbout the Program\nFarmer and historian Earl L. Ijames will introduce the film George H. White: Searching for Freedom and share a short video about the roles of North Carolina and Georgia in the passage of the 13th Amendment outlawing slavery. Following the screenings\, Ijames will facilitate a Q&A session. \nAbout the Film\nThe documentary film\, George H. White: Searching for Freedom (30 mins.)\, chronicles the career of post-Reconstruction Congressman George H. White. \nBorn in 1852 in Bladen County\, N.C. to a family of turpentine farmers\, George H. White was raised to believe that education was the path to progress. Upon graduating from Howard University in 1877 with a degree in education\, White settled in New Bern\, N.C. where he became a school principal and studied law. Soon after passing the North Carolina State Bar\, he won a seat in the state’s House of Representatives and proposed a bill to make education mandatory for all children. He later served in the North Carolina Senate\, where he continued to champion public education\, and as solicitor of his judicial district–the only Black solicitor in the United States. White quickly earned a reputation as a gifted attorney and charismatic orator\, gaining the support of Black voters in eastern North Carolina. \nIn 1896\, White was elected to the U.S. Congress. Following the infamous 1898 white supremacist insurrection in Wilmington\, N.C.\, he proposed the nation’s first anti-lynching bill\, a version of which was passed in 2022 as the Emmett Till Antilynching Act. White was reelected to a second term but departed in 1901\, as a wave of racial terror and Black disenfranchisement swept North Carolina and the south. In his farewell address to Congress\, White predicted the “Phoenixlike” return of Black representation in the federal government. Twenty-seven years would pass before another Black would serve in the U.S. Congress. \nAbout the Speaker\nEarl L. Ijames is a farmer\, historian and Curator\, African American History and Agriculture at the North Carolina Museum of History. Ijames also has many years of experience working in the North Carolina Office of Archives and History \nRegister Here for In-Person Event
URL:https://thebatonfoundation.org/event/searching-for-freedom-the-george-h-white-story/
LOCATION:Pittsburgh Yards\, 352 University Avenue\, SW\, Atlanta\, Georgia\, 30310
CATEGORIES:Film Screening
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SUMMARY:AILEY
DESCRIPTION:The Baton Foundation\, in partnership with the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History\, will host an in-person film screening about the life\, work and legacy of Alvin Ailey. This program is free to the public\, but registration is required. \nAbout the Film\nAlvin Ailey was a trailblazing pioneer who found salvation through dance. AILEY traces the full contours of this brilliant and enigmatic man whose search for the truth in movement resulted in enduring choreography that centers on the Black American experience with grace\, strength\, and unparalleled beauty. Told through Ailey’s own words and featuring evocative archival footage and interviews with those who intimately knew him\, director Jamila Wignot weaves together a resonant biography of an elusive visionary. \nFrom the Director\n“Nothing prepares you for the experience of Ailey—the emotional\, spiritual\, aural\, and visual overwhelm the senses. As a filmmaker\, I am drawn to stories about artists like Alvin Ailey—innovators who tenaciously follow their own voice and in so doing redefined their chosen forms. Ailey’s dances—celebrations of African American beauty and history—did more than move bodies; they opened minds. His dances were revolutionary social statements that staked a claim as powerful in his own time as in ours: Black life is central to the American story and deserves a central place in American art and on the world stage. A working-class\, gay\, Black man\, he rose to prominence in a society that made every effort to exclude him. He transformed the world of dance and made space for those of us on the margins—space for Black artists like Rennie Harris and me. I am inspired by subjective documentary portraits like Tom Volf’s Maria by Callas and Raoul Peck’s I Am Not Your Negro\, and by the poetic cinematic approaches of films such as Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight and Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven. My aim was to blend these influences into a sensorial\, poetic documentary portrait.” – Jamila Wignot \nREGISTER HERE\nNOTE: Limited parking is available directly behind the library. \nPhoto Credit: Courtesy of Neon
URL:https://thebatonfoundation.org/event/ailey/
LOCATION:Auburn Avenue Research Library\, 101 Auburn Avenue NE\, Atlanta\, GA\, 30303\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Amazing Grace
DESCRIPTION:The Baton Foundation\, in partnership with the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History\, will host an in-person film screening that traces the behind-the-scenes recording of Aretha Franklin’s best-selling album. This program is free to the public\, but registration is required. \nAbout the Film\nRecorded in January 1972 at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles\, California\, Amazing Grace is the live recording of Ms. Franklin’s album of the same name. Using film footage shot by Sydney Pollack and produced by Alan Elliot and Spike Lee\, the 2018 documentary features gospel great James Cleveland. Ms. Franklin is accompanied by the Southern California Community Choir under the direction of Alexander Hamilton. Aretha’s father\, Reverend C. L. Franklin\, also appears in the film. \nOriginally scheduled to be released in 1972 (along with the double album)\, technical difficulties synchronizing the audio with the visual print made it impossible. For four decades\, the film footage languished in a Warner Bros. vault. When Ms. Franklin died in August 2018\, her family arranged to have the film released. Since its worldwide debut\, the film has received critical acclaim–reminding us why Aretha Franklin remains the undisputed Queen of Soul. \nREGISTER HERE\nNOTE: Limited parking is available directly behind the library. \nPhoto Credit: Courtesy of Neon
URL:https://thebatonfoundation.org/event/amazing-grace/
LOCATION:Auburn Avenue Research Library\, 101 Auburn Avenue NE\, Atlanta\, GA\, 30303\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film Screening
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