30 January 2007
Race to Execution: Free film screening at Harvard next week
I just got this message from a friend of mine who works at Active Voice, a San Francisco based non-profit that works with social issue films to engage communities around a range of topics that are rarely depicted in mainstream media. They’re sponsoring a this film screening and event at the Harvard Law School next week.
RACE TO EXECUTION
A Film by Rachel Lyon
Thursday February 8, 2007
7pm – Screening
8pm – Panel Discussion
Ames Courtroom
Austin Hall, 3rd Floor
Harvard Law School
Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02138
For directions: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/Ames/
Race to Execution is a provocative and haunting portrait of two Death Row inmates – Robert Tarver of Russell County, Alabama and Madison Hobley of Chicago, Illinois – exposing how race infects America’s death penalty system. With their stories Interwoven with razor-sharp commentary from world-renowned legal experts, this film reveals that beyond DNA, beyond Innocence, the shameful open secret of our capital punishment system is, and always has been, a matter of race. For more information about the film, visit www.racetoexecution.com.
A post-screening panel discussion on the impact of race on death penalty sentencing will feature:
- Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., Narrator of the film, Harvard Law School Professor, and Founding and Executive Director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice
- Judge Nancy Gertner, U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts
- Rachel Lyon, Director and Co-producer of the film
- Jim Lopes, Co-producer of the film
Co-presenters:
Harvard Law School, Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice
Massachusetts Citizens Against The Death Penalty Fund
McCarter & English LLP
National Black Programming Consortium
In association with Active Voice.
For more information or to RSVP, call 718-261-8185 or email
r2eboston07@yahoo.com
