Name: Complex Issues: King in the Wilderness
Start: 2018-09-13T18:30:00-04:00
End: 2018-09-13T20:30:00-04:00
Location: Lenfest Center for the Arts

Complex Issues: King in the Wilderness

arts.columbia.edulenfest.arts.columbia.edu

Columbia University School of the Arts

Screening followed by a conversation between Executive Producer Trey Ellis, Film, and Jelani Cobb, Columbia Journalism School.
<A HREF="https://www.hbo.com/documentaries/king-in-the-wilderness" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">King in the Wilderness</A> chronicles the final chapters of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life, revealing a conflicted leader who faced an onslaught of criticism from both sides of the political spectrum. While the Black Power movement saw his nonviolence as weakness, and President Lyndon B. Johnson saw his anti-Vietnam War speeches as irresponsible, Dr. King’s unyielding belief in peaceful protest became a testing point for a nation on the brink of chaos.
Complex Issues explores difference, visibility, and representation through recent work by faculty of Columbia University and Columbia University School of the Arts in particular. Conversations invite challenging questions of racial, ethnic, gender, economic, sexual, religious, and cultural complexity, and how they are articulated across discipline and genre today.
Co-presented by the Institute for Research in African-American Studies and Columbia Journalism School.
Check-in will begin one hour prior to start time. Seating is limited and first come, first served. Advance registration does not guarantee seating; early arrival is suggested.

Lenfest Center for the Arts

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