Showing of "Al Helm: Martin Luther King in Palestine"

Monday, February 27th 2017, from 6-8:30pm, at Main Library (101 East Franklin Street, Richmond VA), Richmonders for Peace in Israel and Palestine are holding a screening of the documentary "Al Helm: Martin Luther King in Palestine." 

From the event description: "An African American gospel choir is invited to perform with a troupe of Palestinian actors in a play that brings black America's struggle for civil rights to a West Bank audience. Against a backdrop of injustice, the actors and singers share al Helm, the Dream, of Martin Luther King, Jr." 

Free, open to the public. For more information and to RSVP, see the link. 

Lecture with Dr. Caroline Emmons: "A Tremendous Job To Be Done: African American Women in the Virginia Civil Rights Movement."

Thursday, November 17th 2016, from 4-5pm, at VCU's Student Commons (907 Floyd Avenue, Richmond VA), Dr. Caroline Emmons of Hampton-Sydny College will give a lecture titled "A Tremendous Job To Be Done: African American Women in the Virginia Civil Rights Movement."

Free, open to the public. The venue is wheelchair accessible with accessible bathrooms. For more information, see this link. 

Book talk, "Scalawag: A White Southerner's Journey through Segregation to Human Rights Activism" with Edward Peeples: Book People Richmond

Friday, November 11th 2016, from 5-7pm, at Book People Richmond (536 Granite Avenue, Richmond VA), Edward Peeples, author of the Civil Rights movement memoir "Scalawag: A White Southerner's Journey through Segregation to Human Rights Activism," will speak on his book and sign copies.

"Scalawag" is a personal memoir of a white working-class man joining the struggle for collective liberation, but also presents a political history. A white man born to a single mother in Richmond in 1935, Peeples was raised under Jim Crow and taught the brutal ideology of white supremacy. But by nineteen, he rejected it, and became a "race traitor". He joined the Black freedom struggle, and began a life of political work.

Free, open to the public. For more information and to RSVP, see this link.