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Decade of Fire

Saturday, November 9, 2019 2:00pm
Plaza Branch
For 10 years in the 1970s, the South Bronx area of New York City literally smoldered. An arson epidemic, compounded by government negligence, ra...
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The First Rainbow Coalition

Saturday, January 25, 2020 2:00pm
Plaza Branch
Fifty years ago, Chicago’s Black Panther Party formed an unlikely alliance in one of the most segregated cities in America. Intent on addressing po...
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Always in Season

Thursday, February 13, 2020 6:30pm
Plaza Branch
A 17-year-old African American is found hanging from a swing set in the middle of an all-white trailer park in North Carolina. Police quickly de...
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Movie: 'Car Wash'

Thursday, June 27, 2024 1:00pm
Southeast Branch
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This day-in-the-life cult comedy focuses on a group of friends working at Sully Boyar's Car Wash in the Los Angeles ghetto. The team meets dozens o...
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Dawnland

Saturday, November 3, 2018 2:00pm
Plaza Branch
The marginalization of Native Americans wasn’t simply a crime of our country’s distant, unenlightened past. The documentary Dawnland c...
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