Black History Month Film Event: "Shirley Chisholm: The Leader"

     The Alameda Multicultural Community Center will sponsor a 2012 Black History Month Film Event on Wednesday, February 22 from 6-8pm at the Alameda Main Library.  In recognition of the national 2012 Black History Month theme, "Black Women in American Culture & History," the 30-minute documentary Shirley Chisholm: The Leader will be screened.  A panel discussion will follow.

     Panelists are Dr. Jannett Jackson (President of College of Alameda), Vickie Smith (Producer of the slide show "Early African Americans in Alameda" & co-founder of Encinal High School's Black Student Union), and Lester Dixon (Director of the Cougar Cadet Corps).  The event moderator is Rick Moss, Director of the African American Museum and Library of Oakland.

     Everyone is welcome.  This is a free event.  The venue is wheelchair accessible and near bus lines 20, 21 and 51A.

     Shirley Chisholm was the first African American woman elected to Congress and the first major-party black candidate for President of the United States.  The daughter of immigrants, she grew up in Barbados and Brooklyn, N.Y.  Educator, author and politician, Shirley Chisholm said she ran for President "in spite of hopeless odds...to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo."

For more information: <alamulticultural@gmail.com> or 510-521-9405.