Make it stand out
Director: Spike Lee Run Time: 202 min.
Release Year: 1992
Starring: Al Freeman Jr., Albert Hall, Angela Bassett, Delroy Lindo, Denzel Washington
YWCA Lancaster’s Center for Racial & Gender Equity is celebrating Black History Month with Zoetropolis. This showing is FREE to the public.
5:30PM: pre-screening discussion with Dr. Keisha Morant Williams and Dr. Leroy Hopkins
6:00 PM: film starting promptly
A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the ’50s, he became a Black Muslim and then a leader in the Nation of Islam. His assassination in 1965 left a legacy of self-determination and racial pride.
About the speakers:
Dr. Kesha Morant Williams is an accomplished communicator, researcher, and advocate who is committed to building human and social capital in academic and community spaces. She is the Vice President of Academic Affairs at Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology, in Lancaster Pennsylvania. Her scholarship and other professional experiences are vested in creating space for identity and voice for people often left out of the conversation. This approach led to publications in many peer review journals, books, and popular press. Her piece “My Sister’s Keeper: Sibling Social Support and Chronic Illness” inspired her edited book Reifying Women’s Experiences with Invisible Illness.
Dr. Morant Williams is a keynote speaker, presenter, and facilitator – who has worked with organizations such as Philadelphia Futures, Johnson & Johnson, Compass Mark, Lancaster County Community Foundation, Penn State College of Medicine, Penn Medicine, Thomas Jefferson Medical School, and Temple University. Her experiences have led to her serving as a subject matter expert on media, community, and academic platforms. She is a recipient of the National Communication Association Rex Crawley Service Award, YWCA Lancaster Women of Achievement, NAACP Lancaster Rita Smith Wade El Higher Education Award, and City & State Pennsylvania Annual Black Trailblazers Award.
She earned her Ph.D. from Howard University, her M.A. from Penn State University, Harrisburg and her B.A. from West Chester University of PA. She defines herself as a Believer. Scholar. Mommy, Wife. Sister. Friend Advocate – but before anything else she is Willie and Frances’ daughter.
Dr. Leroy Hopkins: Lancaster native, graduated with BA in German and Russian from Millersville State College and earned the Ph.D. in Germanic Languages & Literatures from Harvard. Retired in 2015 as Professor emeritus of Foreign Languages from Millersville University. Serve on boards of LancasterHistory, UGRR Museum of Pennsylvania, William Chester Ruth Legacy Project, African American Historical Society of South Central Pennsylvania, and Bethel Historical Services. Have published essays on local Black History of Lancaster County.
Questions? Email Isabel Castillo at icastillo@ywcalancaster.org