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The Tennessee State Library & Archives will be holding its final free TN225 Lunchtime Speaker Series event on Friday, May 6, beginning at noon. Renowned journalist, author and speaker Elaine ....
Credit Penguin Random House Nashville, August 1920. Thirty-five states have ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, twelve have rejected or refused to vote, and one last state is needed. It all comes down to Tennessee, the moment of truth for the suffragists, after a seven-decade crusade. The opposing forces include politicians with careers at stake, liquor companies, railroad magnates, and racists who don’t want black women voting. And then there are the “Antis”–women who oppose their own enfranchisement, fearing suffrage will bring about the moral collapse of the nation. They all converge in a boiling hot summer for a face-off replete with dirty tricks, betrayals and bribes, bigotry, Jack Daniel’s, and the Bible. ....
February 18, 2021 Cecilia Aldarondo AMHERST, Mass. – The 28th Annual Massachusetts Multicultural Film Festival and the 2020-2021 UMass Amherst History Department Feinberg Series co-present an online conversation with the acclaimed director-producer and academic, Cecilia Aldarondo, on Wednesday, Feb. 24 at 7:30 p.m., on her award-winning 2020 documentary film, “Landfall.” The film will stream on-demand from Feb. 19 through March 5. Both the screening and conversation are free and open to the public. Cecilia Aldarondo is a documentary director-producer from the Puerto Rican diaspora who makes films at the intersection of poetics and politics. Her feature documentary, “Memories of a Penitent Heart” (Tribeca 2016) had its world premiere at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival and was broadcast on POV in 2017. She is a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow, a 2017 Women at Sundance Fellow, two-time MacDowell Colony Fellow and recipient of a 2019 Bogliasco Foundation Residency. In 2019 ....
ONLINE: Poetry of the Moment Dec 17, 2020 12:00 PM UW professors and poets Cherene Sherrard and Amaud Jamaul Johnson. UW-Madison poet and professor Amaud Jamaul Johnson and UW-Madison professor Cherene Sherrard will read from their works, which address such topics as Black identity and the brutal realities of being Black in the U.S. Johnson released his latest poetry collection, Imperial Liquor, this year. But the program is as much discussion as a reading of prior work. Moderated by Ann Shaffer (MA â90) the evening will also include a Q&A session. press release: At a time when the nation grapples with long-standing racial injustices and police brutality, two UW professors â who are also poets, a married couple, and featured in the Winter 2020 issue of ....
ITVS describes Cecilia Aldarondo’s documentary Landfall (Spanish, English; 91 minutes): After the landfall of Hurricane María in 2017, Puerto Rico grapples with a devastated infrastructure and multi-billion dollar debt as outside investors descend not to bail out communities, but to cash in. Set against the backdrop of protests that toppled the US colony’s governor in 2019, Landfall shares kaleidoscopic glimpses of collective trauma and resistance. Everyday puertorriqueños subsistence farmers, teachers, activists, and more meet an incoming wave of cryptocurrency traders, luxury real estate developers, and the politicians leveraging the crisis to recruit their extractive business ventures. In the midst of it all daily life goes on. The next generation of Puerto Ricans find themselves at an inflection point between the dream of a socialist utopia and the reality of recolonization. The new Puerto Rico poses a question of global urgency: when the world falls apart, wh ....