AAMLO Hosting MLK Movie Marathon on Martin Luther King Day – On Monday, January 19, the African American Museum and Library at Oakland (AAMLO) will present its annual MLK Movie Marathon, a series of screenings of critically acclaimed documentaries. From 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., three films will be presented: “The March: The Story of the Greatest March in American History,” narrated by Denzel Washington, about the 1963 March on Washington; “4 Little Girls,” director Spike Lee’s acclaimed examination of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama; and “Freedom Summer,” about events from 1964, when student activists arrived in Mississippi to help with de-segregation efforts there. AAMLO is located at 659 14th Street. Admission is free. To R.S.V.P., please call (510) 637-0200. For more information, please contact Rick Moss, AAMLO’s Chief Curator, at [email protected] or (510) 637-0197.
Posted on: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 00:41:28 +0000
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