AGENTS OF CHANGE

NYC PREMIERE As students of color began arriving on college campuses in unprecedented numbers in the late 1960s, they found institutions ill-prepared to adapt to diversity. Unwilling to accept the absence of their unique cultures and histories, or to ignore prejudicial treatment, students mobilized for black and ethnic-studies programs, even taking up arms when necessary. Focusing on seminal struggles at San Francisco State and Cornell University, Agents of Change powerfully demonstrates this sadly still topical call for inclusivity in education.

Screening with Monica Berra, SheRea DelSol and Gini Richards’s Soul City. In 1970s North Carolina, Black Power activists set out to build a multiracial utopia.

Co-Presented by Human Rights Watch Film Festival