Reparations: Building Community Understanding
Wednesday, August 7, 2019 from 6 – 8 pm
Civil Rights Heritage Center, 1040 West Washington, South Bend
The subject of Reparations for American descendants of slavery is a widely discussed topic today, calling out for national and local understanding and action.
On August 7, Dr. Darryl Heller will lay out the history of disenfranchisement of Black people in the United States not only during slavery but the legacy of systemic separation still active today.
Small group discussion will follow Dr. Heller's address to explore how this history speaks to us in South Bend and what it might call on us to do to repair our community.
This community discussion is part of an effort by the Community Forum for Economic Justice to bring wider local attention to this topic. Public attendance is free and highly encouraged.
Tuesday, August 6, 2019 from 6 to 8 pm
Civil Rights Heritage Center, 1040 West Washington, South Bend
Our monthly series of films and community discussion returns with a look at the history of racial cleansing in the U.S.
Between 1860 and 1920 hundreds of U.S. counties expelled their black residents. African Americans not only lost their hard-won homes, farms and businesses, but saw their communities and families dispersed and their very right to exist violated.
"Banished" traces three of these counties. The film reveals that even one hundred years later, these racially cleansed communities tend to remain all-white bastions of separatism, sometimes harboring active klaverns of the Ku Klux Klan.
Winner of the Organization of American Historian's Erik Barnouw Award, Award of Commendation from the Society for Visual Anthropology, and the Henry Hampton Award for Excellence in Film & Digital Media from the Council on Foundations and Grantmakers in Film & Electronic Media; "Banished" is both a scrupulously researched history film and a probing study of the process of racial reconciliation.
Immediately following the film, join the discussion with Dr. Darryl Heller and a panel discussion of local organizers working to share the history of reparations throughout the city. Public participation is free and highly encouraged.
"Banished" is the first in the fall 2019 crhc:film series, made possible through a grant from Indiana Humanities in cooperation with the National Endowment for the Humanities.