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DESCRIPTION:Jan 16 at 6:30 pm in Piedmont; also Jan 19 at 12:30 pm in Oakland at The 
 New Parkway Theater, 474 24th Street, between Telegraph and Broadway\n\nOf 
 all the divisions in America, none is as insidious and destructive as 
 racism. The Appreciating Diversity Film Series' first program of 2020 is 
 the powerful documentary, The Long Shadow, which traces the history of 
 slavery from the country's founding, up through its ties to racism 
 today.\n\nDirector Frances Causey and Producer Sally Holst, both privileged 
 daughters of the South, were haunted by their families' slave-owning pasts. 
 They grew up in a time when white superiority was rarely questioned, and 
 challenging this norm was often met with deadly consequences. Rejecting the 
 oft-told romanticized version of early U.S. history, they embarked on a 
 journey of hidden truths and the untold stories of how America - driven by 
 the South's powerful political influence - steadily, deliberately and with 
 great stealth, established white privilege in our institutions, laws, 
 culture and economy.\n\nBy telling individual stories---of free, 
 enterprising blacks in Canada and of a modern, racially motivated 
 shooting---the filmmakers movingly personalize the costs and the stakes of 
 our continued inaction. The Long Shadow presents a startling, unrecognized 
 history that provides much-needed context when considering the major issues 
 affecting black/white relations in the United States today.\n\nWilliam 
 Faulkner once said, "The past is never dead. The past is not even past." Or 
 as one scholar warns in the film: "We're still fighting the Civil War, and 
 the South is winning." Anti-black racism has survived like "an infection," 
 rigging the game against African-Americans and denying them full access to 
 the American dream.\n\nThe Long Shadow is a masterful film that captures 
 the disturbing but necessary story of the enduring human cost of prejudice 
 and ignorance in the U.S. that continues to cast a long shadow over our 
 national identity, our values, and, ultimately, our celebrated 
 democracy.\n\nFree/no RSVP needed.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/12/28/18829295.php
SUMMARY:Diversity Film Series 'The Long Shadow'
LOCATION:Ellen Driscoll Playhouse\n325 Highland  Avenue, near Oakland 
 Avenue\nPiedmont, CA 94611
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/12/28/18829295.php
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