Celebrating Malcolm and Yuri

Tuesday, May 19th, 6:30pm

Celebrating Malcolm and Yuri

(In honor of the 94th anniversary of Yuri Kochiyama's birth and Malcolm X's

90th)

6:30pm

Screening

Seven Songs for Malcolm X

John Afomfrah and the Black Audio Film Collective, 1995, 52 min

An homage to the inspirational African-American civil rights leader, Seven

Songs for Malcolm X collects testimonies, eyewitness accounts and dramatic

reenactments to tell the life, legacy, loves, and losses of Malcolm X.

Featuring interviews with Malcolm's widow Betty Shabazz, Spike Lee, and many

other, Seven Songs looks for the meaning behind the resurgence of interest

in the man whose X always stood for the unknown.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zYQ3W-IKSI

Yuri Kochiyama: Passion for Justice

Pat Saunders and Rea Tajiri, 1994, 57 min

Yuri Kochiyama is a Japanese American woman who has lived in Harlem for more

than 40 years with a long history of activism on a wide range of issues.

Through extensive interviews with family and friends, archival footage,

music and photographs, Yuri Kochiyama chronicles this remarkable woman’s

contribution to social change through some of the most significant events of

the 20th century, including the Black Liberation movement, the struggle for

Puerto Rican independence, and the Japanese American Redress movement. In an

era of divided communities and racial conflict, Kochiyama offers an

outstanding example of an equitable and compassionate multiculturalist

vision.

8:30pm - In Malcolm and Yuri’s Name

Cross-Coalition organizing in the 21st Century discussion with Akemi Kochiyama (granddaughter of Yuri), Kevin Louissaint (Liberation Program member/Brotherhood Sister Sol), Gabriel Kilpatrick (Secretary of the Guillermo Morales-Assata Shakur Center/CCNY), Zulu Nation member Queen Benyu Maa’t, Priya Srikumar (CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities), representative of Malcolm X Grassroots Movement.

Sponsored by Maysles Documentary Center, Zulu Nation, Brotherhood Sister Sol, CAAAV:Organizing Asian Communities, the Guillermo Morales-Assata Shakur Center/CCNY, Women Make Movies, Black Audio Collective and Icarus Films.

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