Spirit of Reparations Film Series - first screening

Spirit of Reparations Film Series
First screening of the series - documentary Acts of Reparation
by Macky Alston and Selina Lewis Davidson
in-person event on December 1, 5-8pm
First Church in Jamaica Plain, 6 Eliot St

The first screening is an in-person event on December 1, 5-8pm, a screening of the first film in the Grassroots Reparations Campaign's (GRC) Spirit of Reparations Film Series. We'll watch the new documentary, Acts of Reparation, by Macky Alston and Selina Lewis Davidson.

The filmmakers will join us on Zoom, followed by an in-person panel discussion with Dr David Ragland, Director of GRC, Dr. Kyera Singleton, Director of the Royall House and Slave Quarters, and Reverend Dan Smith, formerly Senior Minister of First Church in Cambridge.

This is an in-person event at First Church in Jamaica Plain, 6 Eliot St. Doors open at 4:30.

Co-sponsors include SURJ Boston, Western MA SURJ, Boston Workers Circle, Congregation Dorshei Tzedek, the Reparations Interfaith Coalition, and First Parish in Jamaica Plain. Register here

Here's a brief description of the film:

Acts of Reparation: Two friends – one Black, one white – travel South to their ancestral lands to explore what reparations means to them. From kitchen tables to porches, lost cemeteries to discovered diaries, their journeys lead to unexpected opportunities that transform their friendship, families and communities.  Together they reclaim and reckon with their roots.