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DESCRIPTION:Liberated Lens will host a free film series commemorating the 400th 
 Anniversary of the first Africans brought to present day America. The 
 series will feature an event every third Sunday of the month starting 
 February, for Black History Month, and ending in August, which marks the 
 quadricentennial.\n\nFor the first event of the series we will show 
 "Nightjohn" and have a discussion with Natalie Baszile, author of a novel, 
 "Queen Sugar".\n\nNIGHTJOHN:\nSarny, a 12-year-old slave girl in the South, 
 faces a relatively hopeless life. Her chief duties at the plantation of 
 Clel Waller are serving at table, spitting tobacco juice on roses to 
 prevent bugs, and secretly conveying intimate messages between Waller's 
 wife, Callie, and Dr. Chamberlaine. Then Nightjohn, a former runaway slave 
 arrives. In exchange for a pinch of tobacco, Nightjohn secretly begins to 
 teach Sarny to read and write, a crime punishable by death. "Words," he 
 says, "are freedom. \n\n"Queen Sugar"\nQueen Sugar is a novel written by 
 Natalie Baszile, her first published novel. It is a mother-daughter story 
 of reinvention. It tells the story about a woman, who unexpectedly inherits 
 a sugarcane farm in Louisiana. The novel was adapted as a drama television 
 series on Oprah's network, directed by Ava DuVernay ("Selma", "13th")\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/02/04/18820979.php
SUMMARY:Liberated Lens presents: Black Film Series: Nightjohn + author of "Queen Sugar"
LOCATION:Omni Commons\n4799 Shattuck Ave\nOakland
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/02/04/18820979.php
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