Name: The Right To Read - Film Screening and Discussion
Start: 2024-01-17T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-01-17T20:30:00-05:00
Location: Marbles IMAX

The Right To Read - Film Screening and Discussion

Wake Up and Read

“Once you learn to read, you will forever be free.” 
Frederick Douglass

Marbles IMAX

The Right to Read shares the stories of an activist, a teacher, and two American families who fight to provide our youngest generation with the most foundational indicator of life-long success: the ability to read.When a child can’t read, their chances of incarceration, homelessness, and unemployment increase. That's why Oakland-based NAACP activist Kareem Weaver believes literacy is one of the greatest civil rights issues of our time and is fighting for better reading instruction. “What good is winning the right to vote if we can’t even read the ballot?” Fed up with the bleak reading scores in his own community, Kareem files a petition with the Oakland Unified School District demanding change.Runtime 71 minutes

Join us following the screening for an important discussion on the state of literacy in our area and what you can do to help make a difference in the life of a child.

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