FW Movies That Matter: Cooked: Survival by Zip Code (2020, NR, 82 min.)
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FW Movies That Matter: Cooked: Survival by Zip Code (2020, NR, 82 min.)

Movies That Matter, a film series program of the City of Fort Worth’s Human Relations Commission.

By City of Fort Worth Human Relations

Date and time

Thursday, June 5 · 7 - 9:30pm CDT

Location

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

3200 Darnell Street Fort Worth, TX 76107

About this event

  • Event lasts 2 hours 30 minutes

Cooked: Survival by Zip Code (202, NR, 82 min.) In the summer of 1995, Chicago experienced an unthinkable disaster when extremely high humidity and a layer of heat-retaining pollution drove the heat index up to more than 126 degrees. Cooked: Survival by Zip Code tells the story of this tragic heatwave, the most traumatic in U.S. history, in which 739 citizens died over the course of just a single week, most of them poor, elderly, and African American. When peeled away from the shocking headlines, the story reveals the less newsworthy but long-term crisis of pernicious poverty, economic, and social isolation, and racism. Cooked is a story about life, death, and the politics of crisis in an American city that asks the question: Was this a one-time tragedy, or an appalling trend?

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Movies That Matter is a FREE, bi-monthly film series that highlights important human and civil rights issues. Each event features a film screening, followed by a moderated discussion with special guests. Screenings are held in February, April, June, August, October and December.

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City of Fort Worth Human Relations

The City of Fort Worth’s Diversity and Inclusion Department promotes the values of diversity, equity, inclusion, and access as they apply to the City's employee and labor relations, its provision of municipal services and capital investments, and the quality of life that all Fort Worth residents experience. The department fulfills this mission by enforcing civil rights laws as they pertain to fair housing, fair employment, and equal access to public accommodations; by raising public awareness of Fort Worth's diverse cultures and their contributions to the community's social and economic vitality; by fostering harmonious human relations among Fort Worth residents; and by coordinating efforts to eliminate racial, ethnic, and gender disparities.

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