HMAAC Cinema Café is an opportunity to get to know your fellow cinephiles through coffee and self-guided conversations. An HMAAC team member will provide you with a prompt to start the conversation. Complimentary coffee and pastries are available on a first come, first served basis.
BANTÚ MAMA
Saturday, May 30
12 pm - RSVP
In BANTÚ MAMA, a French woman of African descent manages to escape after being arrested in the Dominican Republic. She finds shelter in the most dangerous district of Santo Domingo, where she is taken in by a group of children. By becoming their protégée and maternal figure, she experiences an unimaginable change in her destiny.
tcB - The toni cade bambara school of organizing
Saturday, April 11
12 pm - RSVP
2 pm - RSVP
TCB - The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing is a biography of the influential writer, filmmaker and cultural worker, who with humor and deep insight, inspired a generation of artists to dedicate themselves to community empowerment. The film is structured as a series of lessons on cultural organizing, gleaned from Bambara's life and shared by her friends, colleagues and students.
I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO
Saturday, February 28
12 pm
In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his new endeavor: the writing of his final book, Remember This House, recounting the lives and successive assassinations of his friends Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Baldwin was not able to complete the book before his death, and the unfinished manuscript was entrusted to director Raoul Peck by the writer's estate.