Black History Month film at Longfellow

The Alameda Multicultural Community Center will screen "Two Black Nations of America" Friday, Feb. 19 at Longfellow Education Center.

In "The Two Nations of Black America," Frontline correspondent and Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. examines the widening gap between the upper and lower economic classes of black America while exploring just how we could simultaneously have the largest black middle class and largest black underclass in the history of the U.S. As black success continues on the upswing, could it be that the upper
black classes share as much or more in common with their white neighbors
and colleagues than their friends and family in the inner cities?

The film, part of the AMCCC's Black History Month program will be followed by a panel discussion.

Panelists include Rick Moss, African American Museum & Library at Oakland; Vickie Smith: Community Activist and lifelong Alameda resident; Henry Bens: AUSD educator & Pastor of Chosen Vessels Christian Church; Reginald James, Laney College student and Sayoko Watson, Educator, Family & Youth Advocate

The AMCCC will also host a slideshow and discussion on African American History
in Alameda on Tuesday, Feb. 23 at the Alameda Free Library (Main).

The film screening will be at the Longfellow Education Center's Multipurpose Room 500 Pacific Avenue, Alameda, CA 94501. Enter from either 5th Street or the Lincoln Avenue Parking lot. The center is served by AC Transit bus Line 63.