cinéSPEAK x Vox Populi Third Thursdays: The People Rise Up
Thursday, February 19 at 6:30 PM
cinéSPEAK and Vox Populi are kicking off their new collaborative Third Thursdays screening series with a collection of three short documentaries from Third World Newsreel, a media arts organization founded in 1968 to advance liberation movement storytelling. The films tell stories of the Black Panth...
cinéSPEAK x Vox Populi Third Thursdays: The People Rise Up
cinéSPEAK x Vox Populi Third Thursdays: The People Rise Up
cinéSPEAK and Vox Populi are kicking off their new collaborative Third Thursdays screening series with a collection of three short documentaries from Third World Newsreel, a media arts organization founded in 1968 to advance liberation movement storytelling. The films tell stories of the Black Panther Party, an anti-gentrification protest at UC Berkeley, and the Puerto Rican activist group the Young Lords in East Harlem.
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cinéSPEAK and Vox Populi are kicking off their new collaborative Third Thursdays screening series with a collection of three short documentaries from Third World Newsreel, a media arts organization founded in 1968 to advance liberation movement storytelling. The films tell stories of the Black Panther Party, an anti-gentrification protest at UC Berkeley, and the Puerto Rican activist group the Young Lords in East Harlem.
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cinéSPEAK x Vox Populi Third Thursdays: The People Rise Up starts at 6:30 p.m. and ends at 9:00 p.m.
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