Local Showing of Mudbound on March 21

Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst Social Action Committee presents:

Mudbound, a 2017 film about two veterans, one black, one white, and their respective experiences when they return home from WWII. The New York Times review puts it this way: ‘‘Mudbound" is a Racial Epic Tuned to Black Lives and White Guilt.

"Mudbound" is a movie about how things change — slowly, unevenly, painfully. It is also, as the title suggests, about how things don’t change, about the stubborn forces of custom, prejudice and power that lock people in place and impede social progress. Set mainly in the Mississippi Delta in the years just after World War II, when Jim Crow was still enshrined in law and practice, the film, directed by Dee Rees, tests and complicates William Faulkner’s much-quoted claim about the not-even-pastness of the past. It’s a work of historical imagination that lands in the present with disquieting, illuminating force….” (N.Y. Times, November 16, 2017)

Refreshments will be served.

Wednesday, March 21, 7-  9:15PM

Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst

121 N. Pleasant Street, Amherst

Questions: 413-253-2848

Jones Library Film and Discussion Series: 13TH

Message from Coming Together and the Jones Library:

Join us on Thursday, December 7, 2017 at 7:00 pm in the Woodbury Room for the next event in this ongoing film and discussion series that may educate, touch your heart, and inspire you to action to help dismantle racism.

This month’s screening of 13TH is a powerful documentary which explores the history of race and the criminal justice system in the United States by Ava DuVernay, the director of the feature film Selma. The final half of the film will be screened, as the first half was screened and discussed at the October meeting. After the discussion, work will continue in small working groups to advance anti-racism action projects that have been undertaken.

Free and open to the public.  For more information, please contact Janet Ryan at 413/259-3223.

This film series is co-sponsored by the Jones Library and Coming Together.  More information about Coming Together can be found at http://www.coming-together.org/.