Toni Cade Bambara Narrates

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Continuing in our celebration of the film work of Toni Cade Bambara this evening features two films she narrated. John Akomfrah’s Seven Songs for Malcolm X (1993, 52 min), an homage to a towering figure in the African-American freedom strugglethe inspirational African-American civil rights leader, collects testimonies, eyewitness accounts and dramatic reenactments to tell the life, legacy, loves, and losses of Malcolm X. Also screening is Nadine Patterson’s Anna Russell Jones: Praise Songs for a Pioneering Spirit (1993, 26 min), about an African-American woman who made great strides in the early 20th century as a textile designer, World War II veteran and nurse.

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