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DESCRIPTION:From the 1860s to the 1920s, dozens of towns and counties across America 
 practiced their own form of racial cleansing, violently expelling entire 
 African American communities and forcing thousands of black families to 
 flee their homes. A century later, these towns remain virtually all white. 
 BANISHED tells the story of three of these communities, following black 
 descendants who return to learn their shocking histories as well as current 
 residents forced to confront their shameful history.\n\nIn Forsyth County, 
 Georgia, where a thousand black residents were expelled, the film explores 
 the question of land fraudulently taken, and follows some descendants in 
 their quest to uncover the real story of their family's land. In Pierce 
 City, Missouri, a man has designed his own creative form of reparation -- 
 he wishes to disinter the remains of his great-grandfather, who was buried 
 there before the banishment. And in Harrison, Arkansas, home to the 
 headquarters of the Ku Klux Klan, a white community struggles with their 
 town's legacy of hate.\n\nAward-winning filmmaker Marco Williams does not 
 seek easy answers, nor does he shy away from difficult issues. Through 
 conversations with current residents and the descendants of those who were 
 driven out, he challenges viewers to contemplate questions of privilege, 
 responsibility, denial, healing, reparations, race relations and 
 identity.\n\nBANISHED premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2007 and 
 was a New York Times' critics pick that same year.\n\nBanished will be 
 screened FREE on Wednesday, December 8, at the Ellen Driscoll Theater, 325 
 Highland Ave., in Piedmont. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. with free refreshments; 
 screening from 7 p.m. - 8 p.m. with discussion following. The Appreciating 
 Diversity Film Series is sponsored by the Piedmont Appreciating Diversity 
 Committee, DiversityWorks, and the Piedmont League of Women 
 Voters.\n\nDiversityfilmseries.org  or 925-209-5949\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/12/04/18665634.php
SUMMARY:Free documentary film screening of 'Banished'
LOCATION:Ellen Driscoll Playhouse\n325 Highand Ave.\nPiedmont, CA 
 94611\n\nhttp://www.piedmont.k12.ca.us/facilities
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/12/04/18665634.php
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