Programmed February 2022

Black History Rising: Documentaries by Stanley Nelson

For over three decades, native New Yorker Stanley Nelson has been committed to crafting empathetic, thoughtful, and deeply researched documentaries that illuminate a variety of African American experiences. A MacArthur “Genius” Fellow and multiple Emmy Award winner, whose latest film, Attica, is shortlisted for an Academy Award, the prolific Nelson is as capable of creating warm, intimate personal portraits ( A Place of Our Own , about the forty years he spent summering at Oak Bluffs, a Black-oriented resort community on Martha’s Vineyard) as he is of spinning thrilling, expansive tales of unfairly overlooked Black contributions to cultural life ( The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords , Tell Them We Are Rising ), and pulsating studies of Black activism in action ( Freedom Summer , The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution )

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