Name: The Right to Read Screening
Start: 2023-05-07T13:00:00-04:00
End: 2023-05-07T16:00:00-04:00
Location: Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library

The Right to Read Screening

TRL-DC

Join The Reading League - DC and International Dyslexia Association - DC as we screen The Right to Read!

Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library

EXCITING UPDATE! The Hunter Family, who is featured in the film, will be answering questions and signing posters at the screening!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. <a href="https://youtu.be/ptUYVHDeHOw" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">See trailer. </a>J﻿oin TRL-DC and IDA-DC as we screen The Right to Read. This is the only free, public, in-person screening of The Right to Read on the Eastern Seaboard. Board members of both TRL-DC and IDA-DC will be available from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm to discuss the organizations and their work. Please be seated before 2:00 pm, when the screening begins. W﻿hile tickets are free, The Reading League -DC and International Dyslexia Association - D.C. Capital do take donations. Donate to <a href="https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=LALTJZJ279DQN" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">TRL-DC here</a> and <a href="https://dc.dyslexiaida.org/donate-to-our-branch/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">IDA-DC here. </a>

Agenda

Meet & Greet with TRL-DC, IDA-DC Board Members, and Hunter Family

Movie Screening

Q and A and Poster Signing with Hunter Family 

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