Coronado Community Read Event: POV Film Screening "Whose Streets"

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Movies, Online

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Adult, Senior
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As a part of our 2021 Coronado Community Read, we invite you to join us a for a free screening of the POV Documentary Whose Streets directed by Damon Davis and Sabaah Folayan.

This event is a collaboration with POV, the award-winning independent non-fiction film series on PBS. www.pbs.org/pov

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Told by the activists and leaders who live and breathe this movement for justice, an unflinching look at the Ferguson uprising. When unarmed teenager Michael Brown is killed by police and left lying in the street for hours, it marks a breaking point for the residents of St. Louis, Missouri. Grief, long-standing racial tensions and renewed anger bring residents together to hold vigil and protest this latest tragedy. Empowered parents, artists, and teachers from around the country come together as freedom fighters. As the National Guard descends on Ferguson with military grade weaponry, these young community members become the torchbearers of a new resistance