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Black History Month African Americans and Labor theme
Join us at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library for The 36th Annual Black Film Festival! We present a selection of great Black Films to celebrate and showcase Black life in America.
We will be screening films each Tuesday in February showcasing different aspects of the Black experience! Movies will be shown in the Auditorium at 5:30 PM.
Tuesday, February 4th-
Do The Right Thing
R | 2h
On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
Tuesday, February 11th- CANCELED WILL RESCHEDULE
The Banker
PG-13 | 2h
In the 1960s, two African-American entrepreneurs hire a working-class white man to pretend to be the head of their business empire while they pose as a janitor and chauffeur.
Tuesday, February 18th- (Rescheduled From January)
The Color Purple
PG-13 | 2h 21m
A woman faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds extraordinary strength and hope in the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.
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Tuesday, February 25th-
Fences
PG-13 | 2h 19m
A working-class African-American father tries to raise his family in the 1950s, while coming to terms with the events of his life.