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Friday
January 15, 2021
Opening Night
Films
At the Table with Dr. King | More Info
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At the Table with Dr. King is a multifaceted, live performance that teaches students about the American Civil Rights movement and valuable lessons of equality and respect. Through music, poetry, historical video footage and Dr. King’s own words, At the Table also challenges students to engage in creative acts of service and leadership in their communities.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: Through the Eyes of Children, presented by Healdsburg Jazz | More Info
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The concert features Kim Nalley (vocals), Tiffany Austin (vocals), Tammy Lynne Hall (piano), Genius Wesley (drums), and Marcus Shelby (bass). We will also feature a newly commissioned poem by Enid Pickett (poet) dedicated to the Children’s March of 1963.
One Voice: The Story of the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir | Trailer
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One Voice delves into the lives of four Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir members and artistic director Terrance Kelly. This film illuminates a group of people from diverse faiths, races, genders, socioeconomic backgrounds, and lifestyles, all with a common goal: to bring joy and inspiration to the stage through black gospel music. By coming from a place of inclusion and acceptance, choir members are able to bridge their differences, embracing the celebrations and challenges that arise along the way.
River City Drumbeat | Trailer
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River City Drumbeat is a powerful story of music, love, and legacies set in the American South. Edward "Nardie" White devoted his life to leading the African-American drum corps he co-founded with Zambia Nkrumah in Louisville, Kentucky three decades ago. Together they inspired youth from their West Louisville neighborhood to thrive by connecting them with the art and cultural traditions of their African ancestors. Now Albert Shumake, whose destiny was shaped by the drumline, must take up the mantle for the next generation. Meanwhile, student drummers Imani, Jailen, and Emily navigate adolescence and life changes. River City Drumbeat follows this creative community of mentors, parents, and youth making their way in a world where systemic forces raise obstacles to fulfilling their dreams.
Webinar
5:30 p.m. PST | Dr. Clayborne Carson Opens the Film Festival | Register for Link to Join
Saturday
January 16, 2021
Where Are We?
Films
Berkeley in the Sixties | Trailer
Berkeley in the Sixties recaptures the exhilaration and turmoil of the unprecedented student protests that shaped a generation and changed the course of America. Many consider it to be the best filmic treatment of the 1960s yet made.
Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin | Trailer
On November 20, 2013, Bayard Rustin was posthumously awarded the prestigious Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama. Who was this man? He was there at most of the important events of the Civil Rights Movement - but always in the background. Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin asks "Why?" It presents a vivid drama, intermingling the personal and the political, about one of the most enigmatic figures in 20th-century American history. One of the first "freedom riders," an adviser to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and A. Philip Randolph, organizer of the March on Washington, intelligent, gregarious and charismatic, Bayard Rustin was denied his place in the limelight for one reason - he was gay.
Freedom On My Mind: The Story of Freedom Summer | Trailer
The Academy Award® nominated Freedom On My Mind is the first film to chronicle, in depth, the story of Freedom Summer. It vividly tells the complex and compelling history of the Mississippi voter registration struggles of 1961 to 1964: the interracial nature of the campaign, the tensions and conflicts, the fears and hopes. It is the story of youthful idealism and shared vision, of a generation who believed in and fought for the principles of democracy.
Fundi: The Story of Ella Baker | Trailer
Fundi: The Story of Ella Baker reveals the instrumental role that Ella Baker, a friend and advisor to Martin Luther King, Jr., played in shaping the American civil rights movement. The dynamic activist was affectionately known as the Fundi, a Swahili word for a person who passes skills from one generation to another.
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket | Trailer
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket is considered a classic. Without using narration, The Price of the Ticket allows Baldwin to tell his own story: exploring what it means to be born black, impoverished, gay and gifted – in a world that has yet to understand that “all men are brothers.”
Love and Solidarity: Rev. James Lawson & Nonviolence in the Search for Workers' Rights | Trailer
Love & Solidarity is an exploration of nonviolence and organizing through the life and teachings of Rev. James Lawson. Lawson provided crucial strategic guidance while working with Martin Luther King, Jr., in southern freedom struggles and the Memphis sanitation strike of 1968. Moving to Los Angeles in 1974, Lawson continued his nonviolence organizing in multi-racial community and worker coalitions that have helped to remake the LA labor movement.
There's Your Ready Girl: The Life and Legacy of Dorothy F. Cotton | Trailer
Dorothy Cotton was the Education Director at the SCLC 1961-1969 and served on the Executive Team with Dr. Martin Luther King. There she led the Citizenship Education Program, teaching thousands of African American civil rights organizers throughout the south about their constitutional rights, the essentials of voter registration, the philosophy and strategies of nonviolent direct action and the crucial importance of exercising the vote.
Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom | Trailer
Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom is a new musical, infused with original and traditional Gospel and Freedom songs, that tells the empowering, true story of Lynda Blackmon and the young people of Selma, Alabama who were the foot-soldiers of the Voting Rights Movement. Inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Lynda was jailed nine times before her fifteenth birthday, brutally beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, and became the youngest marcher to walk the entire distance from Selma to Montgomery in the march that led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. For more information about the project: https://www.turning15ontheroad.com.
Webinar
10:00 a.m. — 6:00 p.m. PST | Register for Link to Join
Topics include: The African American Gandhians: Bayard Rustin, James Lawson and Howard and Sue Bailey Thurman | Dorothy Cotton: The Citizenship Education Program and Highlander Folk School | Ella Baker | The King Legacy in the Bay Area | The History of the King Institute
Conversations with Dr. Carson
Mary King on the Theory and Practice of Nonviolence | Watch
Michael Honey on the Life and Legacy of the Rev. James Lawson | Watch
Jeannine Herron on the Photography of Matt Herron | Watch
Spirit Tawfiq and Minnijean Brown-Trickey (of the Little Rock Nine) | Watch
Sunday
January 17, 2021
Who Are We?
Films
Al Helm: Martin Luther King in Palestine | Trailer
The glorious strains of gospel music wash over the West Bank in Field's potent film. As the Palestinian National Theater and an African-American choir mount a touring play about Martin Luther King Jr., written by Stanford Professor and King scholar Clayborne Carson, an impassioned cultural exchange ensues, new friendships are forged and attitudes are altered. A rousing portrait of the changes unfolding in the Middle East as a nonviolent movement grows in Palestine, this dynamic and complex work is born of a brilliantly simple and potent idea: what would happen if African-American Christians—the same group who served as exemplars of the Civil Rights Movement—could witness first-hand the plight of Palestinians today?
Blacks and Jews | Trailer
The faultline between Blacks and Jews is one of the most visible symbols of America's racial divide. This film, made collaboratively by Jewish and Black filmmakers, goes behind the headlines and the rhetoric to try to heal the misunderstanding and mistrust. Blacks and Jews was acclaimed at the Sundance Film Festival for initiating a frank yet constructive nationwide dialogue between these two traditional allies.
Have You Heard from Johannesburg?: From Selma to Soweto | Trailer
Have You Heard From Johannesburg is seven documentary stories, produced and directed by Connie Field, chronicling the history of the global anti-apartheid movement that took on South Africa’s entrenched apartheid regime and its international supporters who considered South Africa an ally in the Cold War.
Have You Heard from Johannesburg?: The Bottom Line | Trailer
Have You Heard From Johannesburg is seven documentary stories, produced and directed by Connie Field, chronicling the history of the global anti-apartheid movement that took on South Africa’s entrenched apartheid regime and its international supporters who considered South Africa an ally in the Cold War.
Mother, Daughter, Sister | Trailer
Mother, Daughter, Sister exposes the Burmese military’s practice of using rape as a weapon of war. The film brings light to Kachin and Rohingya women activists' efforts to enact justice for Burma's crimes.
In The Name of Love: 19th Annual Musical Tribute Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. | More Info
Living Jazz invites you to celebrate unity and freedom in our 19th annual musical tribute honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - In the Name of Love. Taking place MLK Weekend and days before the Presidential inauguration - this lineup is committed to delivering inspiration, reflection, and the hope we need to stand united as we enter 2021. The stellar lineup features locally and internationally known artists, activists, and spoken word artists, coming together to inspire hope and to utilize the power of music as a positive agent for social change.
The Third Harmony: Nonviolence and the New Story of Human Nature | Trailer
“To be nonviolent is to be an artist of your humanity,” says Palestinian nonviolence leader and founder of the Taygheer Movement, Ali Abu Awwad, in a new documentary about the power of nonviolence and a new vision of human nature. Drawing on interviews with veteran activists like Civil Rights leader Bernard Lafayette, scientists like behaviorist Frans de Waal and neuroscientist Marco Iacoboni, Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, political scientist Erica Chenoweth, futurist Elisabet Sahtouris, and others, this 44-minute documentary will help the general public, often at a loss to understand the protests occurring in many cities, to better grasp just what nonviolence is and how it works.
Webinar
10:00 a.m. — 6:00 p.m. PST | Register for Link to Join
Topics include: The Life and Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi | Pan-Africanism | The Anti-Apartheid Movement | The Global Human Rights Struggle | Palestine | Martin Luther King's Pilgrimage to India | The Gandhi-King Global Initiative
Conversations with Dr. Carson
Cecelie Counts and Sylvia Hill on the Anti-Apartheid Movement | Watch
Connie Field, director of Freedom On My Mind, Al Helm, and Have You Heard From Johannesburg? | Watch
Mario Chiodo on the Champions of Humanity Monument and His Work | Watch
Michael Nagler, director of The Third Harmony, on Nonviolence | Watch
Priya and Nandini Tandon on Building a Global Community | Watch
Ré Phillips on participating in Al Helm | Watch
Wai Wai Nu and Jeanne Hallacy, director of Mother, Daughter, Sister on Human Rights in Myanmar | Watch
Monday
January 18, 2021
Where Should We Go?
Films
At the River I Stand: The 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike and the Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King | Trailer
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Memphis, Spring 1968 marked the dramatic climax of the Civil Rights movement. At the River I Stand skillfully reconstructs the two eventful months that transformed a strike by Memphis sanitation worker into a national conflagration, and disentangles the complex historical forces that came together with the inevitability of tragedy at the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
I Am MLK Jr. | Trailer
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I Am MLK Jr. tells the story and celebrates the life of an American icon. The documentary features interviews with civil rights-era activists such as Rev. Jesse Jackson, Ambassador Andrew Young, Congressman John Lewis and Rev. Al Sharpton. It also features contemporary writers, activists and influencers in sports entertainment and media such as Van Jones, Carmelo Anthony, Nick Cannon, Shaun King, Malcom Jenkins and more.
King in the Wilderness | Trailer
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King in the Wilderness chronicles the final chapters of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life, revealing a conflicted leader who faced an onslaught of criticism from both sides of the political spectrum. While the Black Power movement saw his nonviolence as weakness, and President Lyndon B. Johnson saw his anti-Vietnam War speeches as irresponsible, Dr. King’s unyielding belief in peaceful protest became a testing point for a nation on the brink of chaos.
The March | Trailer
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The March is a BAFTA nominated documentary directed by John Akomfrah, narrated by Denzel Washington, and executive-produced by Robert Redford. It is about the historic 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom - largely remembered for Martin Luther King's famous and iconic "I Have a Dream" speech. It formed the centrepiece of a special week of programs and online events and activities celebrating the 50th anniversary of the March.
We Are the Dream: The Kids of the Oakland MLK Oratorical Fest | Trailer
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Every year, hundreds of children from pre-K through 12th grade take the stage at the Oakland MLK Oratorical Fest, a public speaking competition where they perform poetry and speeches inspired by the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The film covers the months leading up to the 40th annual festival, as schools across the city send their top-placing students to compete. It is a portrait of young people raising their voices about issues they care about and of the unique community that celebrates and supports them.
Webinar
10:00 a.m. — 6:00 p.m. PST (with scheduled sessions below) | Register for Link to Join
Topics include: The Inner Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. | King's World House | The Relationship Between Martin and Coretta
11:30 a.m. — 12:00 p.m | Celebration with the City of Piedmont | Sign-up for the Piedmont Event here
2:30 p.m. — 3:30 p.m. | Celebration with the Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom Center in Oakland
3:30 p.m — 4:30 p.m. | Office Hour with Students of Dr. Carson's Online Course "American Prophet: The Inner Life and Global Vision of MLK" | Livestream Link TBA