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Public Service Announcements: Lectures and Spoken Word

Free Lecture Series

Cotton and Race in the Making of America
Thursday February 9th at 7pm Please join us for an engaging evening with author and historian, Gene Dattel. The health and fashion benefits that cotton produced overshadowed a sinister past we seldom recognize.  From 1800, to the Civil War to Civil Rights, cotton played an enormous role in the destiny of the American experience with vast global markings long before globalization became a contemporary, household word.  Cotton was a powerful engine of American economic growth and wielded the same authority as oil today.  Gene Dattel’s fascinating account, presents an insightful and revealing narrative about economics and race in the United States - not just the south.  And, importantly focuses on the antebellum North as the key to understanding racial problems today.  As cotton shaped the nation’s economic landscape, racial oppression and the human suffering of slavery shaped the face of America. Slaves cultivated cotton for sixty years, though free blacks were cotton laborers for nearly a century after emancipation. A people and a crop became inextricably bonded.  Dattel will show how cotton and American racial attitudes lead to the fact and fiction portrayed in the popular movie, The Help. Hevreh of So Berkshire, 270 State Rd, Gt. Barrington, MA - 413.528.6378  

Contact: Ricky Bernstein .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 413.229.7993

Racial Justice Here in The Berkshires..

Multicultural BRIDGE, Multicultural BRIDGE Race Task Force and Greylock Federal Credit Union present
Towards Racial Justice in the Berkshires 2012
Film & Discussion Series in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr, W E B DuBois and Black History Month
Location & Dates:
Beacon Cinema (Pittsfield) - January 16, 23 & 30 - 5:30 PM Mondays
Triplex Cinema (Great Barrington)- February 12, 19 & 26 - 11:00 AM Sundays
Images Cinema (Williamstown) - February 28, March 6 & 13 - 5:15PM Tuesdays
Partners: Multicultural BRIDGE Race Task Forces, Beacon Cinema, Triplex Cinema, Images Cinema, Women of Color Giving Circle, MCLA Task Force,
Speakers: Dr. Stewart Burns (Williams), Dr. Frances Jones Sneed (MCLA), and Dr. Setti (CHP) and Dr. Hayes (Bard College at Simon’s Rock)
Moderated by: Gwendolyn Hampton VanSant
Facilitated By: Lawrence Davis Hollander, Rodney Mashia, Otha Day, Joshua Hampton, Ariane Blanchard, Marge Cohan, Reverend Natalie Shiras, Dr. Eden Renee Hayes, Akash Persuad, Crystal Haines, MCLA Student Facilitators, Chief Richard Wilcox and other Multicultural BRIDGE Race Task Force facilitators
Contact: Gwendolyn Hampton VanSant, 413-274-1001, 413-854-1176
For more information: http://www.multiculturalbridge.org

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