Latest Past Events

IMPACT Film & Discussion: “Afrofuturism: The Origin Story”

Online Event

This program year, IMPACT is using a lens we call “Care and Counternarratives” to create more possibilities and approaches to racial equity, justice, and liberation. In our film and discussion spaces, we have grounded ourselves in contemporary and historical examples of radical imagination–the ability to imagine life, and social institutions not as they are but […]

Building a Multi-Racial Movement: Challenges and Promises

IMPACT Silver Spring 8807 Colesville Rd, Lower Level, Silver Spring

Building a Multi-Racial Movement: Challenges and Promises - Wednesday, June 24, 2020 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Our diverse panel of racial justice activists will discuss the challenges and promises of cross-racial organizing and how they sustain themselves as activists. Panelists: Aaron Goggans, Mary Hart, Shuo "Jim" Huang, Oswaldo Montoya, Michael Solomon, and Tanya Cruz Teller. Moderators: Deepa Iyer and John Landesman. Register here - https://building_justice.eventbrite.com/?aff=website.

Film and Discussion

IMPACT Silver Spring 8807 Colesville Rd, Lower Level, Silver Spring

Monday, February 24, 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
 
Join us for February's film, America: Reconstruction After the Civil War, Part III.  Henry Louis Gates Jr., presents a documentary series on the Reconstruction era in American history. The series explores the transformative years following the American Civil War, when the nation struggled to rebuild itself in the face of profound loss, massive destruction, and revolutionary social change.  Part III focuses on ways the "New South" set the stage for Jim Crow and the undermining of Reconstruction's legacy.