{"id":40802264348,"date":"2022-02-03T14:33:21","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T19:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=40802264348"},"modified":"2022-02-03T15:03:32","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T20:03:32","slug":"who-we-are-a-chronicle-of-racism-in-america","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/event\/who-we-are-a-chronicle-of-racism-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Documentary\u2019s subject, directors will be on hand for live, post-screening discussion<\/h2>\n<div class=\"whoweare\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Video: WHO WE ARE | Official Trailer (2022)\" loading=\"lazy\"  style='width: 500px; height: 281px;' src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IGsGRSgZbXY?feature=oembed&#038;rel=0&#038;rel=0\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Count Basie Center for the Arts Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Task Force, in conjunction with Monmouth University\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/school-of-education\/social-justice-academy\/\">Social Justice Academy<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/intercultural\/\">Intercultural Center<\/a>, will host a special screening of the new Sony Pictures Classic documentary <em>Who We Are: A Chronicle Of Racism In America<\/em> at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, February 15 at the Count Basie Center\u2019s Hackensack Meridian Health Theatre, 99 Monmouth Street, Red Bank.<\/p>\n<p>The screening, which is free and open to the public, will be followed by a live discussion with directors Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler, along with former American Civil Liberties Union Deputy Legal Director Jeffery Robinson, whose presentation and research on anti-Black racism and white supremacy in America provides the focus of and narrative the documentary.<\/p>\n<p>In <em>Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America<\/em>, Robinson faces his largest audience, asking all of us to examine who we are, where we come from, and who we want to be. Anchored by a 2018 performance by Robinson at New York City\u2019s Town Hall theater, the film interweaves historical and present-day archival footage, Robinson\u2019s personal story, and v\u00e9rit\u00e9 and interview footage capturing Robinson\u2019s meetings with Black change-makers and eyewitnesses to history. From a hanging tree in Charleston, South Carolina, to a walking tour of the origins of slavery in colonial New York, to the site of a 1947 lynching in rural Alabama, the film brings history to life, exploring the enduring legacy of white supremacy and our collective responsibility to overcome it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKnowledge is power,\u201d Robinson says in a statement accompanying the film. \u201cA false narrative about the role of white supremacy and anti-Black racism in America has led to our failure to make significant, lasting progress on the issue of racial justice. Knowledge can change people\u2019s views, people\u2019s opinions, and their behavior. I never saw this as a question of whether I would make this information public, but how I could do it in the broadest way possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the film, and Robinson\u2019s Who We Are Project \u2013 an outgrowth of the presentation detailed in the film, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/thewhoweareproject.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.whoweareproject.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Documentary\u2019s subject, directors will be on hand for live, post-screening discussion The Count Basie Center for the Arts Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Task Force, in conjunction with Monmouth University\u2019s Social [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":40802264373,"template":"","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"America\/New_York","_EventStartDate":"2022-02-15 19:00:00","_EventEndDate":"2022-02-15 22:00:00","_EventStartDateUTC":"2022-02-16 00:00:00","_EventEndDateUTC":"2022-02-16 03:00:00","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"prefix","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[40802264354],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artseries":[],"arts":[],"tribe_events_cat":[278],"class_list":["post-40802264348","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-featured","cat_featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/40802264348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/40802264348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40802264361,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/40802264348\/revisions\/40802264361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40802264373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40802264348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40802264348"},{"taxonomy":"artseries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artseries?post=40802264348"},{"taxonomy":"arts","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/arts?post=40802264348"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=40802264348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}