Julian Bond: a celebration
May 11, 2016
Join us at the British Academy to celebrate the life and activism of Julian Bond (1940-2015) on Tuesday 24 May at 6pm for a free event Post by Professor Sharon Monteith. Julian Bond was booked as keynote speaker in London but sadly passed away in August 2015. In the obituary I wrote then, I promised …
Civil rights on film: Eyes on the Prize
May 10, 2016
Cinema is central to our understanding of civil rights movement history. Join filmmakers and historians at the British Academy on 24, 25 and 26 May to discuss the relationship between history, activism and documentary filmmaking. The Civil Rights Movement exists in “grainy black-and-white” (Obama, 1995) When Barack Obama published Dreams From My Father in 1995, …
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