Online Screening Info: Available to view 10 am on June 20 through 12 am on June 22.
ASHES TO ASHES
Directed by Taylor Rees. (USA 2019, 25:04)
America has yet to heal from the trauma of its darkest era, and Winfred Rembert proof of that. Rembert, who lived on a plantation, joined the civil rights movement as a teen and was put to work on a chain gang, is a rare survivor of a lynching attempt. As he etched the history, bloodsoaked and cruel, into leatherwork, fellow artist Dr. Shirley Jackson Whitaker organized a different kind of ceremony to search for healing. “It’s not just black history,” she says. “This is American history.”
WARNING: This film has graphic images.
Presented with The Skin You're In.
THE SKIN YOU’RE IN
Directed by Thomas LaVeist. (USA 2019, 1:03:22)
The Skin You're In is a multipart series exposing America’s racial health disparities epidemic. In this pilot episode (SOMETHING ABOUT BROWNSVILLE), Tulane University research scientist Dr. Thomas LaVeist returns to his roots in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY to investigate why Brownsville has the lowest life expectancy of any community in New York.