President’s Lecture Series: Birth of an Answer

Photo credit: Oscar Micheaux, Director of Within our Gates, circa 1915

Arts@ODU and the Old Dominion University Institute for the Humanities invite you to be part of Birth of an Answer (BOAA).
Celebrating 100 Years of African American Creative Responses to Birth of a Nation.

Please join us at the Attucks Theatre to interact with an open conversation with filmmakers
Melvin Van Peebles, Zeinabu Davis, Tim Reid and Michael Swanson. Moderated by film critic Mike Sargent.

Melvin Van Peebles
Director: Sweet Sweetback's Badasssss Song (1971)

Zeinabu Davis
Director: Spirits of Rebellion: Black Film at UCLA (2015)

Tim Reid:
Actor: WKRP in Cincinnati; Frank's Place; Sister Sister; Director: Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored (1995)

Michael Swanson
NBCUniversal Executive; Producer: All About Us (2007); All About You (2001)

Mike Sargent
Moderator

For more information on the Birth of an Answer and related activities, please visit the following website: http://www.boaaevent.org/

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