EXTRA CREDIT

A new extra credit assignment is available. Like the Gaby Pacheco event, this will require attendance at one of the two showings on Wednesday, February 23. You'd turn in a small blurb about it on Thursday, February 24.

-For Immediate Release-

The Urban Learning Center of the Robert J Terry Library at Texas Southern University and The Tulsa Project present a free screening of Before They Die! on Wednesday, Febru-ary 23, 2011 at 1:00pm and 6:30pm in the Walter McCoy Auditorium of the Barbara Jor-dan/Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs at Texas Southern University, on Cleburne off of Tierwester, parallel to event parking. The evening event will feature a 6:00pm re-ception and a panel discussion of the documentary film with its director Reggie Turner.

Filmmaker and social entrepreneur Reginald (Reggie) Turner presents his compelling documentary film, Before They Die! Turner and his production company, Mportant Films, spent over four years following the team of lawyers assembled by Harvard Law Professor Charles Ogletree, Jr. and his core of surviving clients around the country, docu-menting their life stories and bringing to life and light one of the most vicious attacks of domestic terrorism in American history.

On May 31, 1921 in Tulsa Oklahoma, Greenwood, the Wall Street of African America, was bombed, burned, looted, and destroyed in less than 18 hours. Through intimidation and with the support of the local and state governments, a conspiracy of silence concealed the loss of more than 300 lives and the displacement of more than 10,000 law-abiding citizens.
Combining his multifaceted career with his social activism, Stanford University and Georgetown University Law School graduate Reggie Turner seeks to create a vehicle for social change in America. Utilizing his network of athletes, celebrities and industry mo-guls, Turner works to bring them together, through his film, Before They Die!, to create resolution, closure and compensation for the victims of one of the worst cases of domestic genocide in 20th Century American history. This film is part of The Tulsa Project, a non-profit foundation established to raise awareness of the 1921 riots and seek restitution for its survivors.

Please email urbanlearningcenter@tsu.edu or call 713-313-7122 for more information.
Sponsored by ♦The Tulsa Project♦Robert J Terry Library of Texas Southern University♦
♦Mportant Films♦Urban Learning Center♦The Brown Foundation♦Amandla Productions♦
♦Mickey Leland Center on World Hunger and Peace ♦KPFT♦CAIR♦