In honor of the Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration Society and Tulsa City-County Library’s African-American Resource Center invite you to a film showing followed by a panel discussion on the 13th Amendment.
The film showing and panel discussion is scheduled for Jan. 12, 6-8:30 p.m. at Rudisill Regional Library, 1520 N. Hartford. The event is free and open to the public.
Streamed by Netflix, 13th, is a documentary by Ava DuVernay focusing on the 13th Amendment of the Constitution. The film combines archival footage and current interviews about the horrors of mass criminalization and the sprawling American prison industry.
An esteemed panel of local community members will discuss in detail the historic impact of incarceration rates on today’s social and racial climate.
Panel members include:
· Emcee: Attorney Ed Goodwin, associate professor of Journalism and Mass Communications, Tulsa Community College
· Kevin Matthews, Oklahoma State Senator
· Eddie Evans, 100 Black Men of Tulsa, president
· Ryan Gentzler, Oklahoma Policy Institute
· Mimi Tarrasch, Women in Recovery, executive director
The event is sponsored by the Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration Society, Oklahoma Policy Institute, the 100 Black Men of Tulsa, Tulsa City-County Library’s African-American Resource Center and the Tulsa Library Trust.
For more information on Tulsa City-County Library programming, call the AskUs Hotline, 918-549-7323, or visit the library’s website, www.tulsalibrary.org.
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