Awakening to Justice Film Screening
Awakening to Justice Film Screening
Saturday, February 8 at 2:00 p.m. at OPL and on Zoom Join the Wilson Bruce Evans Home Historical Society, Oberlin Heritage Center, and Oberlin African-American Genealogy and History Group as they co-sponsor a community showing of the film “Awakening to Justice” with conversation to follow, Saturday, February 8 at 2 pm at the Oberlin Public Library. The film is a timely intervention, recovering an important 19th century moment in the long struggle for racial justice in the United States, and addressing the opportunities for connecting across lines of race—then and now. The 19th century abolitionists referenced in this film were contemporaries of Wilson Bruce Evans (1824-1898) who moved from North Carolina to Oberlin where he became an abolitionist and Underground Railroad operative active in the fight to end slavery. The film showing and community conversation will provide an opportunity to think together about how to face opportunities and challenges we face at this fraught moment. The conversation will be moderated by Dr. A.G. Miller, Emeritus Professor of Religion at Oberlin College and Pastor of House of the Lord Fellowship in Oberlin. Dr. Miller was part of the multiracial team of scholars who developed the Dialogue on Race and Faith Project, […]