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Born in Harlem to parents whose roots reached back to Georgia, Toni Cade Bambara carried a Southern inheritance into a life of writing, filmmaking, teaching, and organizing. Those roots helped produce a cultural worker who understood that art belonged to the people—and that storytelling could be a tool for building community, strengthening movements, and practicing liberation.

Bambara eventually returned South, making Atlanta home and helping cultivate a generation of Black artists and organizers committed to collective freedom. Her life reminds us that the Great Migration did not sever Black people from the South. We carried its stories, rhythms, wisdom, and organizing traditions wherever we went—and some found their way back home.

For our Boston-area community, the Boston Ujima Project and ICA/Boston are hosting a special screening of TCB – The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing. The film explores Bambara’s life through a series of lessons on cultural organizing shared by her friends, colleagues, and students.

Filmmaker Louis Massiah will join the audience for a post-screening conversation.

🎬 Friday, October 9, 2026, at 7 PM
🎟️ RSVP: www.ujimaboston.com/events
Media Repost: @ujimaboston

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