Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Happening in Harlem: A Screening of the Marcus Garvey Film 'Look for Me in the Whirlwind'


On August 23 at 6 p.m., the 2018 ImageNation Outdoors Film and Music Festival will present a free screening of "Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind" at 18 Mt. Morris Park West

The film, directed by Stanley Nelson, uses a wealth of archival film, photographs, and documents to uncover the story of the Jamaican immigrant who between 1916 and 1921 built the largest Black mass movement in world history. 

The film also explores Garvey's dramatic successes and failures before his fall into obscurity. Among the film's most powerful sequences are interviews with people who witnessed the Garvey movement first hand more than 80 years ago. 

These interviews communicate the appeal of Garvey's revolutionary ideas to a generation of African Americans, and reveal how he invested hundreds of thousands of Black men and women with a newfound sense of pride. 

Family-friendly Caribbean, Soul and World Music will be provided by DJ Mike. 

The event is a co-presentation of Firelight Media and the Marcus Garvey Park Alliance.  

Source: ImageNation

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