We Are the Roots: Film Screening & Discussion

Celebrate Black History Month with We Are the Roots: Film Screening & Discussion! This program brings together film and oral histories to explore the past and present lives of Black peoples in the United State and Canada., featuring short films by Solomon Sir Jones, Melinda James and Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, We Are the Roots: Black Settlers and Their Experiences of Discrimination on the Canadian Prairies. Hang around for a post-viewing discussion led by Deborah Dobbins of the Shiloh Centre for Multicultural Roots and Kalenda Eaton, Ph.D., of the Oklahoma Black Homesteader Project.

For more information: 405-951-0000, okcontemp.org/wearetheroots
Tickets: https://my.oklahomacontemporary.org/wearetheroots

Image: Huston Family, father and two of his daughters in Edmonton. Courtesy of Shiloh Centre for Multicultural Roots.