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The Caltech Center for Diversity and Inclusion to Host Free Virtual Screening of 100 YEARS FROM MISSISSIPPI

Movies That Matter is a new film series curated and presented in a collaborative partnership between Caltech Public Programming, the Caltech Center for Inclusion and Diversity, and the student-led Caltech Y. The films in this series address current concerns in various realms of science as well as important matters of social justice. Movies That Matter launches with a virtual screening of the 2021 award-winning documentary “100 Years From Mississippi” directed by Tarabu Betserai Kirkland on Friday, February 11, at 7:30 p.m.
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The Civil Rghts Movement and Montreal


February is Black History Month and it seems an appropriate time to look at the civil rights struggles and Montreal particularly after a year when Black Lives Matter came to the fore and a greater focus on inequities relating to black, indigenous and people of colour (BIPOC) have come into more acute focus. In the tangled urgency of the moment, the American civil rights movement is being harkened back to. Only a few are aware of Montreal’s major links with the civil rights movement.
There were occasions when Montreal played host to major figures in the American civil rights movement. By invitation of Rabbi Harry Joshua Stern, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at Temple Emanu-El (renamed Temple Emanu-El – Beth Sholom) in March 1962. More than a thousand people attended the Temple’s sanctuary to hear King speak about a “democracy devoid of segregation”. Eulogizing Reverend King, six years later, Rabbi Stern at a Temple Sabbath service, Rabbi Ster ....

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