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Please join us for film screening and discussion of Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation

  • 1.  Please join us for film screening and discussion of Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation

    Posted Mar 07, 2022 12:55 PM

    Forwarded on behalf of Judy Ruttenberg, Senior Director of Scholarship and Policy, ARL.

    Dear colleagues,

    ARL, ALA, ACRL, SAA, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), and the 1890 Land-Grant Institutions and Tuskegee University Library Deans/Directors Association are co-hosting a free, virtual event on March 30 - it is open to everyone but registration is required. See below.

    Yours,
    Judy

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    Wednesday, March 23: Deadline to Register for US Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Film Screening and Discussion

    Join Charles L. Chavis, Jr., Wednesday, March 30, 2:00–3:30 p.m. EDT, for a virtual screening of the short film Hidden in Full View, the story of the lynching of Matthew Williams in Salisbury, Maryland, in 1931. Dr. Chavis is the national co-chair of the US Movement for Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation (US TRHT) and vice-chair of the Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Participants in the film screening will learn about US TRHT and the Archive of Racial and Cultural Healing (ARCH) on the national level and as demonstrated through the story of the Black community in Salisbury, on Maryland's Eastern Shore.
    Registration is open through Wednesday, March 23. 

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    Judy Ruttenberg
    Senior Director of Scholarship and Policy
    Association of Research Libraries
    21 Dupont Circle, NW Suite 800
    Washington, DC 20036-1118
    phone 202-296-2296, ext. 112


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    Mira Swearer
    Program Manager
    Association of Research Libraries
    21 Dupont Circle, NW Suite 800
    Washington, DC 20036-1118
    phone 202-296-2296 x118

    My pronouns are she/her/hers.


    Have a wonderful day and week. Stay safe and well.

    Take care, 
    Twanna 

    Twanna Hodge, MLIS (she, her, hers)
    Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Librarian 
    University of Florida Libraries 
    2013 Spectrum Scholar  
    2018 ALA Emerging Leader