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This February, our Fellowship supports Black History Month by offering opportunities for you to learn, reflect and grow.
These events include
- four Saturday evening movie offerings
- "Common Read" discussions of Emancipation Betrayed
- a Sunday service dedicated to Black History in Florida, including a "Share the Plate" offering benefiting the Human Rights Coalition of Alachua County
- Wednesday evening showing of Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
Please join us.
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Black History Movie Nights
Four Saturdays: February 6, 13, 20 & 27, 7:00 pm on Zoom
In February, we share four Saturday evening films to celebrate Black History Month!
February 6 , 7:00 pm: Mudbound -a 2017 film depicting two World War II veterans – one white, one black – who return to rural Mississippi each to address racism and PTSD in his own way.
February 13, 7:00 pm: Loving -a 2016 American biographical romantic drama film which tells the story of Richard and Mildred Loving, the plaintiffs in the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court decision Loving v. Virginia, which invalidated state laws prohibiting interracial marriage.
February 20, 7:00 pm: One Night in Miami -a 2020 American drama film about a fictionalized meeting of Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Jim Brown, and Sam Cooke in a room at the Hampton House in February 1964, celebrating Ali’s surprise title win over Sonny Liston.
February 27. 7:00 pm: I Am Not Your Negro -a 2016 documentary film based on James Baldwin’s unfinished manuscript ‘Remember This House.’ Narrated by actor Samuel L. Jackson, the film explores the history of racism in the United States through Baldwin's reminiscences of civil rights leaders Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr., as well as his personal observations of American history.
UUFG Common Read
Sunday, February 7 and 21, 3:00 pm on Zoom
Join our ongoing discussion of Paul Ortiz'Â Emanicpation Betrayed: the Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 1920. We began our discussion on January 31, but you're welcome to join us on February 7 (Chapters four through six) and February 21 (Chapters seven through nine and the Conclusion).
Sunday Service
Sunday, February 21, 11:00 am
We welcome guest speaker, Dr. Paul Ortiz, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History, and Director of UF’s Samuel Proctor Oral History Project, Dr. Ortiz will speak on the topic of his award-winning book, Emancipation Betrayed, the focus of our Common Read.
We'll also "Share the Plate" with the Human Rights Coalition of Alachua County, a local organization that collaborates with affected individuals and communities to assist them with developing ways to achieve their goal of receiving basic human rights.
Popcorn & a Movie
Wednesday, February 24, 7 pm: The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
This documentary mixes archival footage and photos with interviews to revisit the Black Power movement in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s. It charts the group’s origins, its media significant events such as cofounder Huey Newton’s release from prison and the police raid in Chicago.
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