Shared Legacies Film Screening and Dialogue

2601 Gentilly Boulevard,New Orleans LA 70122

17 January, 2023

Description

Spill the Honey Foundation provides a forum for discussion and a space to showcase Black-Jewish relations through Shared Legacies: The African American-Jewish Civil Rights Alliance. Crucial historical lessons of Black-Jewish cooperation are revisited and revived in this utterly fascinating, urgent call to action. Pivotal events come alive through a treasure trove of archival materials, narrated by eyewitnesses, activists, Holocaust survivors, and leaders of the movement, including Congressman John Lewis, Ambassador Andrew Young, Senator Rapheal Warnock, King’s attorney Dr. Clarence B. Jones, Oscar-winning actor Louis Gossett Jr., members of the King family, and many others. The dialogue is dedicated to Dillard University President Emeritus Samuel DuBois Cook, friend and college classmate of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and founder of the National Center for Black-Jewish Relations. Panelists: Dr. Rochelle Ford (President, Dillard University), Dr. Clarence B. Jones (Attorney and Speechwriter for Martin Luther King, Jr.), Dr. Shari Rogers (Film Director, Shared Legacies), Rev. Dr. Gerald L. Durley (Pastor Emeritus, Providence Missionary Baptist Church), Rabbi Katie Bauman (Touro Synagogue) Moderators: Wendell Shelby-Wallace (Special Advisor, Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs), Blake Weissman (National Youth President, Spill the Honey Foundation) Sponsors: Lawless Chapel at Dillard University, Spill the Honey Foundation, New Orleans NAACP, and Goldring Family Foundation Center for Jewish Multicultural Affairs