

Teen Book Club - Mondays
January 25th - 5pm
Movie - Remember the Titans
(2000) Rated PG
The true story of a newly appointed African-American coach and his high school team on their first season as a racially integrated unit.
January 30th - 5:45pm
Book - Black Like Me
Discussion
John Howard Griffin, the author and main character of Black Like Me, is a middle-aged white man living in Mansfield, Texas in 1959. Deeply committed to the cause of racial justice and frustrated by his inability as a white man to understand the black experience, Griffin decides to take a radical step: he decides to undergo medical treatment to change the color of his skin and temporarily become a black man.
February 6th - 5pm
Movie - Black Like Me
(1964) NR
February 13th - 5:45
Book - The Learning Tree
Discussion
Photographer, writer, and composer, Gordon Parks is a moving, true-to-life novel of growing up as a black man in this country in this in the 1920's. Hailed by critics and readers alike, THE LEARNING TREE tells the extraordinary journey of a family as they struggle to understand the world around them and leave their mark a world that is better for their having been in it.
February 27th - 5pm
Movie - The Learning Tree
African American Adventure Club
(for children)
Wednesday, February 8th, 4pm
Matinee Movies Wednesdays 1pm
February 1
A Raisin in the Sun
(1964) NR |
February 8th
Malcolm X
(1992) PG-13 |
February 15th
Ray
(2004) PG-13 |
February 22
Sarafina
(1992) PG-13 |
February 29th
Dreamgirls
(2006) PG-13 |
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