P.O.P. SHOWING FILM ‘PRESUMPTION OF GUILT’ THURSDAY! FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE! On Thursday, October 30th, the People’s Organization for Progress will host a special showing of Newark native Hafiz Farid’s critically acclaimed documentary ‘Presumption of Guilt: Race, Class and Crime in America,’ as a part of their participation in ‘Mass Incarceration Resistance Month,’ at their general assembly meeting. The meeting takes place at the Abyssinian Baptist Church, 224 West Kinney Street, Newark. Doors open at 6:30pm The film was tabbed the best ‘social documentary’ at the New York Independent Film And Video Festival. It is based on the book Presumption Of Guilt by Charles Ogletree and captures the residual issues surrounding the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, who was arrested going into his own home. Professor Gates is African-American. It includes interviews with Ogletree, the late Maya Angelou, Michelle Alexander, and P.O.P. chairman Lawrence Hamm, among others. See the link for the film’s trailer below. youtu.be/uzXn3yI7JnU “We are fortunate to have scholars like Professor Ogletree and filmmakers like Hafiz Farid who give us the much needed critical outlines for a dialogue that this country has to stop trying to ignore,” said Lawrence Hamm, the organization’s founding chairman. Farid will be on-hand for a discussion after the showing… THE PEOPLES ORGANIZATION FOR PROGRESS PO BOX 22505 NEWARK, NJ 07101 973 801 0001 njpop.org CONTACT: LAWRENCE HAMM October 27, 2014
Posted on: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 11:59:21 +0000
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