Open Society uses TV to talk about race in Baltimore
The Open Society Institute of Baltimore is launching a yearlong dicussion about race in America, and TV is at the heart of that conversation in two upcoming events.
Tuesday, the series offers a showing of the HBO documentary The Black List: Volume Two, and a question and answer session afterward with the filmmakers, photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders and former New York Times film critic Elvis Mitchell.
The Black List is a series of interviews featuring persons of color talking about their lives, careers, achievements and challenges. The mix ranges from filmmaker Tyler Perry to physician Valerie Montgomery-Rice. The screening starts at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Brown Center at the Maryland Institute College of Art at 1300 Mount Royal Ave. in Baltimore.
On June 4th, the series continues with a conversation featuring TV journalist Gwen Ifill of the PBS public affairs shows, Washington Week and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and Baltimore civil rights lawyer Sherrilyn A. Ifill.
The event starts at 7 p.m. and will be held in the Wheeler Auditorium of the Enoch Pratt Free Library at 400 Cathedral St. in Baltimore.
