When Malcolm Smiled

🎬 When Malcolm Smiled | Screening & Director Talk - Dionne Warwick Theater, Bowie State University

An incredible way to close out Aesthetic Inheritance: Art, Archive, and African American Life, a three-day symposium exploring African American art, archives, memory, and historical documentation.

On the final day, When Malcolm Smiled screened alongside The Labor/The Luxury, directed by Nia Hampton @glowingpainstudio. We then joined the conversation Moving Memories: A Dialogue on Cinema, moderated by Bowie State Professor Ogechi Chieke, to reflect on film, memory, and the stories we preserve.

Grateful to share this space with the artists, scholars, cultural workers, and community members who made this gathering so meaningful.

Thank you to the hosts and sponsors, @bannekerdouglasstubmanmuseum, Terra Foundation for American Art @terraamericanart and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. @dstinc1913, and co-organizers Build Serve Unite at Bowie State University and the Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture.

Cinema is more than storytelling. It is a way of preserving memory, documenting history, and keeping our stories alive. ✊🏾

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