Olympian weightlifter Cara Heads attended the Capital City Open Weightlifting Championships hosted by the DC Weightlifting Club in April. This was our opportunity to watch some of DC’s women weightlifters compete and promote the Community Cinema presentation of STRONG! Cara appears in STRONG! with weightlifting Bronze Medalist Cheryl Haworth. ITVS Community Cinema [DC] will preview STRONG! Saturday, June 30 at 5 PM at Busboys and Poets (2021 14th Street, NW). Cara has enjoyed a successful, 18-year career as an Olympic-Style Weightlifter, traveling the world, earning 8 National Championship Titles, 2 American Records, 5 World Team Qualifications, and the highly coveted, athletic title of Olympian. Cara recently relocated to the Washington, DC area, and offers classes in Strength and Conditioning, Personal Training, and Coaching. The DC Weightlifting Club is a community partner for STRONG! STRONG! is also part of the ITVS initiative Women and Girls Lead. Special thanks to Michael Choi of DC Weightlifting Club for hosting us at the competition.
Join PBS, CARE, and Women and Girls Lead for a free livestream of the documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell.
Starts at 7:30p ET here: http://bit.ly/xAiRRB
The screening will be followed by a panel discussion (streamed live online from Washington, D.C.) with the film’s Executive Producer, Abigail Disney;Paula Kerger, President, PBS; Helene Gayle, President and CEO CARE USA ; and Donald Steinberg, Deputy Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development.
Community Cinema [DC] is happy to be working with Teaching for Change as a community partner for our January screenings of DAISY BATES: FIRST LADY OF LITTLE ROCK. Executive director Deborah Menkart, Jenice View (assistant professor of Educational Transformation at George Mason University), and Alana Murray are co-editors of the highly acclaimed education resource book Putting the Movement Back Into Civil Rights Teaching. (photo: from L-R Jenice View, Alana Murray, Deborah Menkart)
Putting the Movement… is a collection of essays, articles, analysis, interviews, primary documents and interactive & interdisciplinary teaching aids on civil rights, movement building, and what it means for all of the inhabitants of the planet. With sections on education, economic justice, citizenship, and culture, it connects the African-American Civil Rights Movement to Native American, Latina, Asian-American, gay rights, and international struggles; while highlighting the often-ignored roles of women in social justice movements.. Packed into nearly 600 oversize pages are photographs, songs, statements, and work from the likes of such writers, historians, and activists as Bill Bigelow, James Loewen, June Jordan, Grace Lee Boggs, Herbert Kohl, Bayard Rustin, Rita Dove, Malcolm X, George Jackson, Ward Churchill, Leonard Peltier, Thurgood Marshall, Gwendolyn Brooks, Elizabeth Martinez, Sonia Sanchez, Eric Foner, Marcus Garvey, Manning Marable, and dozens more.
Julian Hipkins is the 11th grade social studies teacher at Capital City Public Charter School. Hipkins is using Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States as the text for his American History class.
Deborah Menkart, Jenice View and Julian Hipkins will be guest speakers following the Community Cinema screening of Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock Saturday, January 21 at 5 PM (Busboys and Poets); Menkart, Hipkins will lead the discussion after the screening Sunday, January 22 at 3 PM (Washington, DC Jewish Community Center). Additional speakers are TBA.
Additional Resource:
Teaching for Change is a coordinating organization with non-profit publisher Rethinking Schools on the Zinn Education Project. One of the Zinn Education Project’s recommended civil rights resources is Warriors Don’t Cry, a memoir by Melba Pattillo Beals (one of the Little Rock Nine). Download a Teaching Activity PDF by Linda Christensen from this link. The PDF includes role play and writing activities for language arts and social studies on the Little Rock Nine, Brown v. Board, and schooling in general. Designed for use with the memoir, Warriors Don’t Cry. (FYI – you must register on the Zinn Education Project site to download the PDF.)
Community partners for the Community Cinema [DC] presentations of Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock
