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Stamped From the Beginning

  •   Roger Ross Williams
  •   United States

Inspired by the book of the same name and narrated by its bestselling author Dr. Ibram X. Kendi (How to Be An Antiracist), Stamped from the Beginning explores the roots of anti-Black racist beliefs and practices and how they’ve become enshrined in American culture. The film brings history to life through vivid animated sequences recounting the often little-known achievements of Black women thinkers such as 18th C. poet Phillis Wheatley, memoirist Harriet Jacobs, and journalist Ida B. Wells, while also exposing the whitewashed legacies of Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln.

Directed by Oscar winner Roger Ross Williams (The Apollo) and featuring such leading activists as Dr. Angela Davis, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, and Brittany Packnett Cunningham, the film is a bold and searing account of how past and present are entwined in an insidious mix of white supremacist and anti-Black ideologies.


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Special Guests

Scheduled to attend: Producer Alisa Payne and subject Dr. Ibram X. Kendi

Sponsor(s)

Documentary Program Sponsors

Logo: WTTW (2019)Cynthia Stone Raskin

Black Perspectives Program Sponsors

logo: Allstate 199x50

Event Information

Wednesday, October 18, 2023
6:00pm

  •   94 minutes
LOCATION
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
915 E 60th St
Chicago, IL 60637

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Accessibility

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