For January's Film and Discussion series, we will viewing the PBS documentary, Reconstruction After the Civil War, Part II. Join us for the viewing and a facilitated discussion to follow. For more information or to register, please contact Carolyn Lowery at carolyn@impactsilverspring.org.
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.
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 […]
