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DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST

GENE SISKEL FLM CENTER PRESENTS FIRST CHICAGO RUN OF THE NEW RESTORATION OF JULIE DASH'S LANDMARK AFRICAN AMERICAN FEATURE, DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST   Presented one week only, November 25-December 1  "A film of spellbinding visual beauty...an extended, wildly lyrical meditation on the power of African cultural iconography and the spiritual resilience of the generations of women who have been its custodians." -Stephen Holden, The New York Times "Distinctive, original...every image, every moment is a full creation...Dash is one of the heroines of the modern cinema."-Richard Brody, The New Yorker A film of breathtaking beauty and haunting cultural resonance, this landmark independent film by the first African American woman to everreceive theatrical distribution in the U.S. returns in a fully remastered restoration on the 25th anniversary of its release.  On a summer day in 1902, a large African American family descended from slaves gathers for one last picnic in their Sea Island home on the eveof their move North. The knowledge and mystical traditions of the clan's West African heritage are manifest in the women of the family,from the matriarch Nana to the unborn baby girl in her granddaughter's womb, as the family confronts the conflicts and challenges of a newcentury.   First Chicago run! DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST, 1991, Julie Dash, USA/UK, 112 min., with Alva Rogers, Bahni Turpin, In English and Gullah dialect with English subtitles, DCP digital.  Friday, November 25-Thursday, December 1 Friday, 11/25 at 2 pm and 4:15 pm; Saturday, 11/26 at 7:45 pm; Sunday, 11/27 at 5 pm; Monday, 11/28 at 8 pm; Wednesday, 11/30 at 8:15 pm; Thursday, 12/1 at 8:00 pm   All screenings are at the Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, located at 164 N. State St.   Tickets to each screening--unless stated otherwise-are $11/general admission, $7/students, $6/Film Center members, and $5/Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) staff and School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) faculty, staff, and students. Friday 2:00 pm matinee tickets are $8/general admission and $5/Film Center members and students. All tickets may be purchased at the Film Center Box Office. Both general admission and Film Center member tickets are available through the Gene Siskel Film Center's website www.siskelfilmcenter.org/content/tickets or through the individual films' weblinks or visit www.siskelfilmcenter.org of $1.50 per ticket. The Film Center and its box office are open 5:00 to 8:30 pm, Monday through Thursday; 1:00 to 8:30 pm, Friday; 2:00 to 8:30 pm, Saturday; and 2:00 to 5:30 pm, Sunday.   Please note that the Gene Siskel Film Center's theaters, box office, and main office will be closed on Thursday, November 24. The Film Center's main office will be closed on Friday, November 25; its box office will open at 1:00 pm on that day.

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African American Civil War Museum

Moving Forward is the theme of the upcoming celebration, at the African American Civil War Museum, Saturday, November 19.

This celebration will honor two outstanding former Members of the Board of Directors, who worked to restore and preserve the history of the United States Colored Troops and their white officers who led them into battle. Both free and formally enslaved men served as soldiers in the Union Army, during the American Civil War in 1865.

The honorees of Moving Forward are Beverly Perry, Esq., Senior Advisor to Mayor Muriel Bowser, and former Vice President of Government Relations for Pepco; and Mr. Emanuel (Manny) J. Friedman, Philanthropist and Co-Founder of EJF Capital LLC. Both honorees are being recognized for their 20+ year prior membership on the Board of Directors of the African American Civil War Museum. Special Guests of the Moving Forward celebration are Ms. Cheryl Wills, NY TV1 News Anchor, Author and Honorary Chair of the celebration; and Major General Leslie C. Smith, Deputy Inspector General of the U.S. Army.

Frank Smith, founder and Executive Director of the African American Civil War Museum said, "Beverly Perry has been a visionary leader on the Board of Directors for the past twenty years. She saw the wisdom in building the Civil War monument and Memorial and led Pepco to donate significant funds.

We will miss her and wish her well. Our other honoree, Manny Friedman is like my soul brother. Like me, he was born and educated in the South, in North Carolina, and tasted the bitter sting of discrimination as a young Jewish kid. Manny purchased the largest known collection of Benjamin Banneker artifacts and donated them to our Museum."

The Museum hosts thousands of visitors annually and was touted as the Location of the Month by the DC Film Commission. The Moving Forward Celebration will be held in the trendy "U Street" Street District of Washington, D.C. For ticket information, www.afroamcivilwar.org or call Dawn Chitty at 202-667-2667. 

Community TV That's Answerable to the Community

Community TV That's Answerable to the Community A Call For an Elected CAN TV Board Chicago Access Network (CAN TV) has been in turmoil for over a year as widely divergent salaries and management disrespect for the creative input of staff forced the latter to successfully form a union.  Through the course of the union organizing effort begun in 2015, there was retaliation against union organizers and Unfair Labor Practices complaints, followed by the sudden departure of a top manager, Greg Boozell. Now it was recently announced that the Executive Director of CAN TV, Barbara Popovic, is unexpectedly retiring. These departures provide a unique opportunity for reform. The community that supports CAN TV, and is in turn nourished by it, can use this opportunity to take control of its future and change course from the debilitating present. To achieve this new start, those of us who support and work with CAN TV – the CAN TV community – must also call for the replacement of the current Board of Directors, which was not elected by CAN TV members. The Board, who also elected and re-elected Barbara Popovic as Executive Director, stood in the way of the CAN TV community having any say. Fresh elections to the Board, including participation by current members if they so choose, will allow a new Board to exercise a mandate that is earned, rather than based on who-knows-who. The next Executive Director replacing Popovic must also be elected. If the next Executive Director is not democratically elected by the CAN TV community, s/he will effectively inherit the previous methods and outlook of the retiring director.  At present, CAN TV members may not nominate themselves or other members as candidates for the Board of Directors. Only current Board members may nominate a Board candidate and this only via the Board's Nominating Committee; finally, only current Board members may vote for candidates for Board membership. This means that CAN TV community members are excluded from democratically participating in the nomination and vote for Board members. And, since only Board members may vote for the Executive Director, CAN TV members are also excluded from democratically selecting the Executive Director. These bylaws must be changed. Community TV works best when it is intimately connected to and reflecting the community. CAN TV was created precisely to serve, democratically, the parts of Chicago’s communities that are disenfranchised from media access because of economic limitations. The overwhelming majority of Chicagoans are working class, making modest wages, if that. Popovic, however, was paid $180,000 a year, making for an inherent disconnect between herself and the overwhelming majority of the community she was supposed to serve. Thus we need to change not only individual personalities, but also the grossly unequal compensation structure and undemocratic methods by which leaders are chosen, which entrenched the current leadership and made it so at odds with those it ostensibly served.  We need change that reflects the ideals of democracy and freedom of speech. We need a media institution that recognizes the inalienable value of each person, their background, language and experience. Such ideals must be reflected in media production that is created by Chicago's communities and individuals speaking for themselves to the greater community about the issues not often covered in the corporate media.  In short, the community needs a direct and powerful role in decision-making at CAN TV. We therefore call for the following: 1. Retire the system of only allowing current Board members to nominate and elect new members and the Executive Director; 2. Revise the bylaws so that Board members and Executive Director shall be directly and democratically elected by the CAN TV community; and 3. Insure that the next permanent Executive Director will be installed under these new provisions, insuring that the CAN TV community is given direct, democratic input in the selection of any new, permanent Executive Director. If the current, appointed Board of Directors remains before such a democratic, CAN TV community-based election of a new Director can be carried out, then the current Board shall be tasked with selecting an interim, probationary Executive Director. The probationary Executive Director and existing board must implement the following: 1. Organize, with community input, a procedure and timetable for the democratic election of a new Board by the CAN TV community; and, 2. Insure that the new interim/probationary Executive Director and the existing Board during this transition period would not be able to bring on any new Board members. Once a new CAN TV community-elected Board is installed, it will have the power to finally vet and approve any candidate for Executive Director, including the interim/probationary Director. In a world where community voices are increasingly shunted aside by wealth and unaccountable power, we have a valuable opportunity to return a valuable institution back to the community. Let's seize this opportunity to make CAN TV an even more integral part of making our city a better place to live. Larry Duncan, CAN TV Producer; Labor Beat co-producer Juan Carlos Hernández, Producer, Chicago Sunday Evening Club Andy Thayer, co-founder of Gay Liberation Network; LGBTQ Hotline participant Mitchell Szczepanczyk, Producer, Chicago Independent Television; Organizer, Chicago Media Action Dr Elaine Mizenburg, Jesus Bible College, CAN TV Producer Roger Fraser, Gay Liberation Network; LGBTQ Hotline participant Bob Schwartz, Gay Liberation Network; LGBTQ Hotline participant Mike Kalas, Chicago Indymedia Christine Geovanis, HammerHard MediaWorks Scott Sanders, Organizer, Chicago Media Action Prof. Steve Macek, North Central College, author, Urban Nightmares:  The Media, the Right, and the Moral Panic over the City Sarah Chambers, member Chicago Teachers Union Executive Board Ed Hershey, Delegate, CTU Kristine Mayle, former Financial Secretary of CTU Dr. Anne Sheetz, MD, single-payer healthcare activist Joe Iosbaker, Committee to Stop FBI Repression Renée Jackson Rev. Jean Siegfried Darling, Peoples Church of Chicago Tricia Black Zelda Robinson, HLN TV Show Team