An American Coup: Wilmington 1898
November 18 at 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm CST
On Monday, November 18, 2024, documentary filmmaker Yoruba Richen will discuss American Coup: Wilmington 1898, a new American Experience PBS documentary directed by Richen and Brad Lichtenstein that examines a white supremacist massacre of Black residents of Wilmington, North Carolina. Richen, and others from the film, will be in conversation with Teaching for Black Lives co-editor Jesse Hagopian.
Yoruba Richen is the founding director of the documentary program at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York. She is an award-winning documentary filmmaker. Her film The Rebellious Life of Mrs Rosa Parks premiered at Tribeca Film Festival and won a Peabody Award. The Zinn Education Project developed lessons to accompany the film. Her other films include The Cost of Inheritance and The Killing of Breonna Taylor.