Film Screening: Mossville: When Great Trees Fall

Mossville, Louisiana: A once-thriving community founded by formerly enslaved and free people of color, and an economically flourishing safe haven for generations of African American families. Today it’s a breeding ground for petrochemical plants and their toxic black clouds. Many residents are forced from their homes, and those that stay suffer from prolonged exposure to contamination and pollution. Amid this chaos and injustice stands one man who refuses to abandon his family’s land – and his community.
Q&A will follow directly after the screening.
Join to watch the screening live: https://watch.eventive.org/…/play/5fe6d9ab158cd100853f5aa9
Registration Code: SSEHSL21
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This event is part of MLK Week.
This year’s theme is “Good Trouble,” a term often associated with former United States Representative John Lewis. As a founder and leader of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Lewis was the youngest person to speak at the March on Washington, August 28, 1963, and taught us young people must be the change they want to see by pushing and forcing older generations for equitable change. “I want to see young people in America feel the spirit of the 1960s and find a way to get in the way. To find a way to get in trouble, good trouble, necessary trouble.”
Learn more: https://diversity.utah.edu/mlk/