Greenbelt Emancipation Day Programs

Events on both Sunday, November 3 and Saturday, November 9 

Sunday, November 3 / 5 pm

Just Another Bombing? This is Donal and Iona's Story
FREE Film & Discussion
Greenbelt Cinema, 129 Centerway

This film "takes audiences on a poignant journey through a little-known incident of the 1960s Civil Rights era. lona Godfrey King and her son Donal Godfrey share their deeply moving account of surviving a Klan bombing of their home with three other family members on February 16, 1964, in Jacksonville, Fla." Film (25 min.) will be followed by a Q&A with lona King. Sponsored by Random Unselfish Acts of Kindness.

Saturday, November 9 / 1-3 pm

Reparations/Repatriation - Perspectives
Greenbelt Library Auditorium

PANELISTS:

Dr. Raymond Winbush - Morgan State University
National Perspective

Dreisen Heath - Human Rights Watch
International Perspective

Rico Newman - Member of Choptico Band of Elders, Piscataway-
Conoy Tribe of Indians
Indigenous Perspective

Moderator - TBA

Presented by the Greenbelt Black History and Culture Committee, Prince George's County Office of Human Rights, Greenbelt Museum, and Greenbelt Recreation