The killing of 15-year-old Latasha Harlins in March 1991 became one of the flashpoints for the LA uprisings in April the next year. Through the memories of a close friend and cousin, Oscar-nominated A Love Song for Latasha (2019), directed by Sophia Nahil Allison, counters the focus on her death by building a rich archival portrait of the teenager, imagining and celebrating the life that should have been. Following the screening, director Sophia Nahli Allison and other special guests will join AAPF Executive Director Kimberlé Crenshaw to discuss the film, the archival and storytelling techniques of A Love Song, and the importance of using film to counter the erasure and silencing of Black women and girls.

Film Screening: 4:30 p.m. PDT (7:30 p.m. EDT)

Talkback: 5:00 p.m. PDT (8:00 p.m. EDT)

Speakers:

Sophia Nahli Allison is an experimental documentary filmmaker, photographer, and dreamer from Los Angeles. Allison disrupts conventional documentary methods by reimagining the archives and excavating hidden truths. She conjures ancestral memories to explore the intersection of fiction and non-fiction storytelling. Her short film A Love Song For Latasha has been nominated for an Oscar, and received the Jury Award for Best Documentary Short at the 2019 AFI Fest, The New Orleans Film Festival, and BlackStar Film Festival.

Kimberlé Crenshaw is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the African American Policy Forum, the host of the podcast Intersectionality Matters!, the moderator of the webinar series Under The Blacklight, and a Professor of Law at UCLA and Columbia Law School. She is popularly known for projects that she has named, such as “intersectionality,” “critical race theory,” and the #SayHerName Campaign, and is a leading authority on Civil Rights, Black feminist legal theory, race, racism, and the law. In early 2021, she received the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association of American Law Schools.

**** Registration for this conversation is through Eventbrite. All interested attendees will receive a link to the live-stream on the day of the event. This event will also be recorded. ****

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About Her Dream Deferred

Her Dream Deferred: A Week on the Status of Black Women is a week-long series of conversations and virtual events focused on elevating the crisis facing Black women and girls in our country. Black women, girls, and femmes have continually been on the front lines of progressive social movements, yet the challenges they face at the intersections of race and gender have consistently been relegated to the margins of dominant racial and gender justice discourses. Since its inception, the annual Her Dream Deferred week has countered that marginalization by amplifying the voices and narratives of Black women and girls and providing the tools to dismantle the structural barriers that plague them in their homes, schools, and communities.

To learn more, please visit: www.aapf.org/hdd

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Please join AAPF for other events during #HerDreamDeferred 2021:

Monday, March 29th: When Misogynoir is a Pre-existing Condition

Tuesday, March 30th: Engendering the Politics of Black Athletes

Wednesday, March 31st: Mini Film Festival (Day 1): Coded Bias

Thursday, April 1st: Mini Film Festival (Day 2): A Love Song for Latasha

Friday, April 2nd: Mini Film Festival (Day 3): Still I Rise

Tuesday, April 6th: A Space for Ritual Healing