#LeadLAP Watch Party

If you were able to join us last week for our #LeadLAP conversation, you know that we had such a phenomenal chat focused on our learning and growth in becoming more antiracist in our thoughts, beliefs, words and actions. We have been tackling this work together for 13 weeks now under the phenomenal leadership of Traci Browder and Dawn Harris. While it is often easy to see how much work we still have to do, it’s also important to pause and reflect on where we started and where we are now. The conversation was so real, so open and authentic, vulnerable and empowering – thank you to all of you who participated. and shared your hearts. Your willingness to grow is inspiring. The questions we focused on are below, and you can find the chat archive with all of the beautiful responses HERE.

So what do we have in store for you this week? By popular demand, we are hosting our second #LeadLAP Twitter Watch Party. Our film this Friday will be I am Not Your Negro. It is an Oscar-nominated documentary narrated by Samuel L. Jackson which explores the continued peril America faces from institutionalized racism. Below is a bit about the film:

“In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, Remember This House. The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and successive assassinations of three of his close friends–Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. At the time of Baldwin’s death in 1987, he left behind only thirty completed pages of his manuscript.

Now, in his incendiary new documentary, master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin’s original words and flood of rich archival material. I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO is a journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter. It is a film that questions black representation in Hollywood and beyond. And, ultimately, by confronting the deeper connections between the lives and assassination of these three leaders, Baldwin and Peck have produced a work that challenges the very definition of what America stands for.” 

Details about the event are below. We hope you’ll join us to watch the film, engage with us in conversation on Twitter and join us for a Zoom conversation at the conclusion of the film.

On Saturday during #LeadLAP will use our dialogue, reactions, and aha’s about the film as inspiration for the chat.

We look forward to seeing you there.