MXO Black History Month Celebration: PBS Documentary ‘Slavery By Another Name’ Dialog Series
18 February 2012
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In honor of Black History Month, a special screening of ‘Slavery By Another Name’ with a panel discussion afterwards will be held at NewBridge Center for Arts and Technology, 3634 Euclid Ave., Friday, Saturday 25th, 2012 from 6p-9p
Produced by tpt National Productions ‘Slavery by Another Name’ premieres on PBS throughout the month of February 2012 (check WVIZ local listings). ‘Slavery By Another Name’ is the 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Wall Street Journal writer Douglas Blackmon and recounts how in the years following the Civil War, insidious new forms of forced labor emerged in the American South, keeping hundreds of thousands of African Americans in bondage, trapping them in a brutal system that would persist until the onset of World War II.
Based on Blackmon’s research into original documents and personal narratives, Slavery by Another Name unearths the lost stories of slaves and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after Emancipation and then back into involuntary servitude. It also tells stories of courage and redemption, and the men and women who fought against the re-emergence of human labor trafficking.
‘Slavery By Another Name’ screening and panel discussion is a collaboration between Beech Street PR, CEC Imaging and MXO Entertainment in conjunction with WVIZ/PBS Ideastream.
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