Film Screening - Environmental Justice Journalism Initiative
Black Displacement and Climate Change
Location
Off Campus : Senator Theatre 5904 York Rd,
Date & Time
April 18, 2023, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Description
Three short films on Black displacement and related local environmental justice issues will be screened in succession together at the Senator Theatre in Baltimore this evening. Dr. Karsonya Wise Whitehead, founder and executive director of the Karson Institute for Race, Peace, and Social Justice, will moderate a filmmaker discussion after the screening.
To attend, you will need to register for tickets here.
The films were produced by The Environmental Justice Journalism Initiative and their partners. For more information about the film Eroding History and about EJJI, please visit https://www.ejji.org/media or follow us on Twitter @EnvJustJourn, Instagram @ejji_journ, and Facebook at @EnvJustJourn
Films:
Eroding History - tells the story of two Black communities on Deal Island that are in danger of losing their history and culture due to rising seas, and how they are fighting to hold on to what remains
Sponsor: Loyola University of Maryland
Director: Award-winning journalist and photographer Andre Chung
Producer: longtime Chesapeake Bay reporter Rona Kobell
Co-Producer & Co-Writer: renowned West Baltimore radio host, columnist, and filmmaker Sean Yoes
Disruption: The Highway to Nowhere - about the wound in West Baltimore’s neighborhoods
Executive Producer & Director: Sean Yoes
Smithville - about environmental displacement
Directors: Morgan State University alums Wyman Jones and Jalysa Mayo
Producer & Writer: Rona Kobell
Additional Sponsers of Screening: The Center for the Humanities at Loyola, Messina at Loyola, Department of Communication, Department of Management & Organizations, and Global Sustainable Business Club
